Recent news reports across the globe have highlighted the need to ensure food quality and safety. Analytical methods for assessing pesticide residues must provide sensitivity and specificity to address detection limit requirements as proposed by US EPA Code of Federal Regulations and by European Commission Directives, which aim at minimizing pesticide residue levels in food products. The use of the Thermo Scientific TRACE GC Ultra™  with proprietary large volume split/splitless injection and electron capture detection (ECD) provides added sensitivity to meet these requirements.

• 30X sensitivity increase with LV-SL
• No re-validation of splitless methods needed
• Shorten the re-concentration step and save extraction solvent
• Purify more quickly and more efficiently