Background For over 100 years, the conventional method used to assess the microbiological quality of drinking water has remained essentially unchanged: The heterotrophic plate count (HPC) is often used as a measure of general microbiological quality. However, despite its ubiquitous use, this method is non-specific and time consuming (>1 day). Flow Cytometry… Read More »
Forthcoming BMTA-CSols Event Oct 20th 2015 The use of Statistics for the Control of Analytical Methods in Accredited Laboratories Venue: NMRO, Teddington Time: 09:30 until 16:00 Speakers at this event will discuss the use of Statistics for the Control of Analytical Methods in Accredited Laboratories. Topics will include UKAS include the proposed redrafting of ISO… Read More »
COD with Merck SpectroQuant® Pharo 100 and 300 UV/VIS spectrophotometers The Merck SpectroQuant® Pharo 100 and 300 spectrophotometers can measure Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), a commonly analysed parameter in the water and environmental laboratories. COD is important as an indirect indication of the amount of organic pollution in water and is a useful measure of water quality.… Read More »
QC updates have been now added to the Links for LIMS driver for connecting to the Roche PSM middleware system. This extends the usefulness of the link in biochemistry laboratories and allowing LC-MS/MS, GC-MS and ICP-MS instruments to pass QC results to PSM. This allows PSM to consolidate QC results from all laboratory instruments allowing… Read More »
CSols have recently created a new Links for LIMS™ driver for the Agilent (formerly Varian) 720 ICP-OES instrument. The new software driver works alongside Links for LIMS software to create instrument runs for the ICP Expert II software package running the instrument. Once the instrument run is completed the driver then reads the automatically generated… Read More »