Thermo Fisher Scientific Announces Two New Persistent Organic Pollutant Screening Kits
Thermo Scientific POPs Kits Provide Sensitive and Rapid Detection of Dangerous Organic Contaminants
ATLANTA - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced Thermo Scientific POPs Screening and Thermo Scientific POPs Confirmation, two new regulatory compliant GC application kits for screening and confirming the presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The kits provide a simple, ready-to-use package for GC-MS analysis with all necessary consumables and methods, enabling labs to more efficiently, cost-effectively and accurately meet EU directives on POPs levels and detection sensitivity. This is especially important for the screening of food or environmental samples. Thermo Fisher will showcase the POPs analysis kits within Thermo Scientific booth 2835 during Pittcon 2011, being held March 13-18, in Atlanta.
Containing everything from columns to consumables, the POPs Screening and POPs Confirmation kits can simplify chromatographic analysis, from ordering and sample handling to final report generation. Unlike some newer chromatography methods, which are often expensive and time-consuming to develop and validate, the Thermo Scientific POPs kits eliminate the need for extensive method development and shorten the validation period, providing the highest quality data in the shortest possible time.
Contamination of food and water supplies with dioxins, furans and other persistent organic pollutants presents a real danger to public health. Regulatory bodies now require screening for these compounds down to parts per trillion. The POPs Screening and POPs Confirmation kits are designed to operate with existing Thermo Scientific GC-MS technology and software to generate toxic equivalents for the analyzed samples. The kits are packaged with all necessary components for ease of method development, and whole kits or individual components can be rapidly reordered as needed.
For more information about the new Thermo Scientific POPs analysis kits, please visit Thermo Scientific booth 2835 at Pittcon 2011. Alternatively, please visit http://www.thermoscientific.com/applicationskits.
For access to all Thermo Fisher Scientific news and product photos related to Pittcon 2011, please visit the online media room at www.thermofisher.com/pittcon11.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of nearly $11 billion, we have approximately 37,000 employees and serve customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as in environmental and process control industries. We create value for our key stakeholders through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, which offer a unique combination of continuous technology development and the most convenient purchasing options. Our products and services help accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, and solve analytical challenges ranging from complex research to routine testing to field applications. Visit www.thermofisher.com
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