Supplier of certified reference materials will be introducing its increased product range at the Frankfurt fair
Certified reference materials are essential tools for analysts working to ISO 17025, providing traceability to appropriate measurement standards.
LGC Promochem supplies a range of certified reference materials, including standards and matrix materials, which are increasingly important for laboratory accreditation, particularly where analytical results are used for forensic or litigation purposes.
LGC Promochem is a single source for all laboratory reference material and standard needs.
The products are sourced from reputable national and international bodies such as the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements and the National Institute of Standards and Technology as well as commercial organisations including Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Cerilliant, Ultra Scientific and LGC's own in-house production facility. Herbal/neutraceutical - this range has recently been extended to include over 2500 high purity phytochemical - or herbal - reference standards from ChromaDex which are largely new to Europe.
Extracted from natural plant material, the ChromaDex range of standards is used to verify the presence of, and accurately quantify, key marker or active compounds - such as hypericin for St John's Wort or caftaric acid for Echinacea. The standards can also be used to check for toxic or adulterating plant material.
Foods - analysts in the food sector will find the new range of mycotoxin standards of particular interest, along with the established selection of standards such as food colours and lipids.
Among the wide variety of matrix materials are meat samples with various levels of metals and other analytes and milk powder with various fat contents.
Cell culture - LGC Promochem can also supply a full range of standards from ATCC including human and mouse clones with full length gene transcripts from the Mammalian Gene Collection and fungi and yeast cell lines and clones from Johns Hopkins University.
Environment - LGC Promochem's latest catalogue 'Reference Materials for Environmental Analysis 2002/2003' includes a range of over four hundred inorganic standards from Ultra Scientific.
These are used in the analysis of contaminants in a diverse range of environmental samples such as river water, sediments and contaminated soil.
They can also be used for checking plants and other food materials for levels of contamination.
LGC Promochem is on stand C2 in hall 5.1 at Achema 2003.
