Careful tracking of food and more stringent regulations with lower limits of quantification (LOQs) have been mandatory in recent times to safeguard the health of consumers.
Liquid chromatography – tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MSMS) has been broadly regarded as the extremely sensitive and highly specific method of choice to determine food contaminants at trace levels, such as veterinary drugs, natural toxins, pesticides and purported “emerging contaminants.”
PerkinElmer’s strong and reliable QSight® triple quad systems provide consistent productivity and throughput required by users in their analytical testing laboratory. The company’s LC/MSMS solutions offer the highest sensitivity and throughput that has ever been witnessed by the industry and the ability to test for the most difficult, complex samples, such as cannabis.
QSight Triple Quad 400 Series
- This robust LC/MSMS system has been engineered to offer exponentially improved sensitivity that global food manufacturers and exporters, commercial testing laboratories and highly regulated cannabis labs require to satisfy their most stringent needs.
- Flow-based mass spectrometer offers matchless robustness and stability. Patented StayClean technology helps decrease instruments maintenance, thereby offering 15% more throughput and productivity.
- A quick analysis of both positive and negative molecular charged entities are available
- Dual Source technology provides users the capability to fix APCI or ESI modes, along with two separate probes for true multiplexing, while offering the broadest range of molecular panels that can be examined without any need to change the probe
- Modular Simplicity™ 3Q software to acquire, measure and report with flexible data viewing options and strong remote diagnostics
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QSight Triple Quad 200 Series
- A workhorse system that offers remarkable sensitivity for hard matrices in the food and cannabis industries and commercial testing laboratories.
- Dual Source technology provides users the capability to fix APCI or ESI modes, with two separate probes for true multiplexing
- Remarkable uptime as a result of StayClean™ Source, self-cleaning design, and the Laminar Flow Ion Guide™ for highly efficient field-free transmission, thereby eliminating virtually all maintenance needs
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QSight Triple Quad 100 Series
- The QSight 100 series triple quad is a robust system for regular analysis of daily samples in simpler matrices and offers high performance, sensitivity, and linearity in a low-cost and compact footprint
- Notable uptime as a result of the StayClean™ Source, self-cleaning design, and the Laminar Flow Ion Guide™ for highly efficient field-free transmission, virtually eliminating all maintenance needs
- The technology of dual-source provides users the capability to set ESI or APCI modes, with two separate probes for true multiplexing
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QSight Pesticide Analyzer
- The QSight™ Pesticide Analyzer has been constructed to examine hundreds of pesticides in a single run, with maximum efficiency and sensitivity, and is, therefore, the only instrument that offers 15% greater throughput compared to the traditional systems
- The Analyzer offers all the functionality required by the users in a triple quad solution, as well as an array of innovations that users would not find in competitive systems, all in a small form factor that does not occupy useful bench space.
- The QSight™ Pesticide Analyzer can offer all the functionality that users would require for the most efficient high-sensitivity analyses right from initial sample preparation and extraction to analysis and reporting
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QSight SP50 Online SPE System
The QSight® SP50 online solid-phase extraction (SPE) module simplifies sample enrichment and concentration, obviating the requirement for detailed and laborious sample preparation procedures.
SP50 provides simple and efficient switching between conventional, direct injection UHPLC analyses and completely automated online SPE with sample pre-concentration, thereby enabling high throughput and cost savings.
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QSight LX50 Solvent Delivery Module
The QSight® LX50 UHPLC combines smoothly with the QSight Triple Quad LC/MSMS and its Simplicity™ software provides the highest grade of performance from sample handling via data collection and reporting. The system includes three main technologies that help improve the workflow of users and allow high productivity.
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Simplicity™ 3Q
The modular Simplicity 3Q™ software is perfect for acquiring, measuring and reporting QSight™ Triple Quad LC/MSMS data. It is developed for intuitive, direct operation and offers flexible data viewing options and strong remote diagnostics.
The available modules (included in Simplicity 3Q software suite) guide users via a workflow-based experience from method development down to results processing and reporting:
- Simplicity 3Q Acquire™ for data acquisition
- Simplicity 3Q view™ for data viewing
- Simplicity 3Q Quant™ for quantitation
- Simplicity 3Q Service™ allows remote diagnostic for rapid and precise troubleshooting