Perkin Elmer launched its Axion Mass Spectrometry platform at the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) Conference on 5-9 June in Denver, Colorado.
The Axion hardware and software platform is designed to deliver rapid and accurate mass identification and quantification to monitor water quality to ensure its safety, as well as safer pharmaceutical and food products.
The combination of the Axion hardware and software suite brings highly specific, fast and accurate quantification to quality-control and research-based organisations.
The Axion platform is intended to help companies deliver better-quality products and services to consumers across the environmental, food and pharmaceutical sectors.
Its speed and specificity enable unambiguous identification and quantification of both known and unexpected compounds, for full characterisation of a sample.
Resolving power and sensitivity, the Axion platform helps determine critical contamination levels across a range of samples, including environmental soil and water, pharmaceutical components and pesticide analysis of food products.
The Axion 2 Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (TOF-MS) instrument is available with a choice of patented ion sources, including dual probe Ultraspray 2 ESI or Field-Free Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Ionisation (APCI).
Each source has interchangeable snap-in probes to enhance productivity and user flexibility by reducing cross-contamination.
The Axion Solo software features an immediate results-review system for single or multiple target analysis to identify and quantify the presence of known substances in a series of samples.
The Axion XPO software has a user-definable, colour-coded results view to allow laboratory managers to screen high volumes of samples at a glance.
The Axion Edoor package has been created for Open Access environments.
The intuitive user interface guides customers through the analysis from login, method selection and sample setup in a network environment, with simple results delivery by email.
