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Custom Chemical Manufacturing Demands Effective cGMP Services

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Custom chemical manufacturing companies who provide products used in the pharmaceutical, food, and cosmetics industries are all governed by the same cGMP, or current Good Manufacturing Practices, as the industry customers they serve. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established and regulates these guidelines, setting the standards for how a company manufactures its products and […]

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Particle Sampling in Space: A New Frontier

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Why are we sampling particles in space? Our understanding of the living conditions astronauts experience in the International Space Station (ISS) may be colored by our exposure to science fiction. Based on this experience, you might assume that an unknown airborne substance in a spacecraft was of alien origin, seeping in by accident or on […]

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Synthetic Drugs Detected using PTR-TOFMS Technology

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  • 3:56PM Apr 10, 2015
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Written by Todd Rogers, Ph.D. Scientists at IONICON Analytik, Austria-based partners of RJ Lee Group, have demonstrated the ability of Proton Transfer Reaction Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (PTR-TOFMS) to identify several synthetic drugs within 30 seconds of analysis.  Synthetic drugs, sometimes referred to as New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), are artificially produced chemicals that mimic […]

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