AsureQuality blazes a trail for food and environmental residue testing

摘要

AsureQuality's world class contaminants testing laboratory, based In Waiwhetu, near Wellington will put to use its fleet of six LC-MS/MS (liquid chromatography tandem mass spectroscopy) instruments, including two ABSciex 5500 instruments, imported from Singapore (the first and third of only four of this type of instrument in New Zealand), along with a fleet of 12 GC-MS/MS (gas chromatography tandem mass spectroscopy) and GC-MS (gas chromatography mass spectroscopy) instruments to service the ministry's requirements. AsureQuality has years of experience working with these instruments for all types of analysis. In addition, the Waiwhetu-based laboratory, which employs more than 95 scientists, also houses the only three commercial HRMS (high resolution mass spectroscopy) instruments to be found in New Zealand. These instruments allow the detection of extremely low levels of dioxins, PCBs and other chemical contaminants of concern in the environment.