UCT at Emerald Conference Feb 26-29th!

One of the most difficult challenges facing forensic toxicologists is the extraction, analysis and quantification of  synthetic cathinones. In a paper published in Journal of Analytical Toxicology (JAT) by Peters et al., from East Tennessee University (doi: 10.1093/jat/bkw074), UCT’s flagship SPE Clean Screen^® DAU was employed to extract the bathsalts from rat brain tissue. This article demonstrates the power of the Clean Screen^®DAU to assist forensic toxicologists in efficiently extracting newer psychoactive compounds from very complex matrices.  

UCT is well recognized in the analytical testing field for manufactoring the finest silica and polymeric based sorbents. Most recently, The Styre Screen ^® SPE column line has been utilized in a paper authored by R.C. Kevin et al., (University of Sydney, Australia) in the journal Forensic Toxicology (doi:10.1007/s11419-016-0330-0) where urinary cannabinoid concentrations were measured during nabiximols (Sativex^®)-medicated inpatient cannabis withdrawal. The hydrolysed samples containing (CBD, THC, THC-COOH, and 11-OH-THC) were directly loaded onto Styre Screen^® (SSTHC063) SPE columns.  This paper demonstrates the efficiency of UCT’s polymeric Styre Screen^® sorbents in the analysis of cannabinoids, and why researchers working in the field of cannabinoid analysis turn first to UCT for the finest in silica and polymeric sorbents. 

In the field of animal sports toxicology, UCT is recognized around the world as the premier manufacturer of the finest sorbents for the extraction of steroids and other doping agents in equine urine. In a recent paper published in Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis by H.D.Shin et al., (doi= 10.1016/j.jpba.2017.06.036) a high throughput method for simultaneous screening of anabolic steroids and their metabolites (4-esterendione, trenbolone, boldenone, oxandrolone, nandrolone, methandrostenolone, testosterone, 1-androstendione, ethisterone, normethandrolone, methyltestosterone, 16β-Hydroxystanozolol, epitestosterone, bolasterone, norethandrolone, danazol, stanozolol and androstadienone) in equine urine was developed using UCT’s large particle Xtrackt^® SPE sorbent (XRDAH203).