CEM has produced an application note explaining how their new EDGE instrument, with innovative Q-Cup technology, offers a valuable alternative to the QuEChERS method for the extraction of pesticides from even the most difficult food matrices.
As the demand for greater knowledge of what goes into our food increases, particularly with regard to pesticides, so more rigorous testing is required. The QuEChERS method provides a practical approach for pesticide analysis of a variety of food matrices.
However, the manual multi-step process is time-consuming and some matrices, either by their nature or economic value can be hard to analyse. By contrast, the Edge from CEM, a radical new instrument that combines the processes of Pressurised Fluid Extraction (PFE) and Dispersive Solid Phase Extraction (dSPE) in the one instrument, can extract a difficult food sample in one automated step in less than seven minutes.
CEM has produced an application note on the use of the EDGE in this demanding field. To fully understand the advantages that CEM’s EDGE offers for the extraction of pesticides from difficult matrices simply download the file from the CEM website.
