Perkinelmer has unveiled the SMS 100 analyser, which is designed to improve the detection and measurement of mercury in solids and liquids and to help minimise the need for complex sample preparation.
The SMS 100 helps to accurately measure mercury at low levels in a variety of sample types, enabling environmental laboratories, municipalities, power utilities, waste producers and food companies to comply with regulations and protect consumers.
It is an automated mercury analyser that can be used to assess solids, whereas conventional mercury testing systems analyse liquid samples that can require lengthy sample preparation.
The company claims that the SMS 100 enables users to test for mercury more quickly and efficiently, resulting in higher productivity, while still being capable of delivering detection limits as low as one part per trillion.
Its processes and sensitivity also help users to meet requirements set forth by governmental agencies, such as the EPA and the FDA, and their European counterparts, as well as regulated testing methods, including the combustion technique described in EPA Method 7473.
The SMS 100 complements Perkinelmer's Ecoanalytix portfolio of solutions, which was developed to meet the changing needs of the environmental market.
The Ecoanalytix initiative provides proven technologies and couples them with applications, methods and standard operating procedures to help laboratories tailor sophisticated tools for routine analysis.
The analyser employs thermal decomposition, gold amalgamation and cold vapour atomic absorption spectrometry.
Standardisation can be accomplished using either liquid or solid standards.
Additional features include a high-capacity autosampler.