Success Stories

Lab Manager Overcomes Big Challenges with Horizon Technology
Recently, John Keith brought onboard a “helping hand.” A new, automated sample preparation system takes the water sample, adds the proper solvents needed, and extracts out the pesticides and herbicides, replacing a previously labor-intensive method that the staff had to manually perform. Staff time spent on this chore has been reduced by up to 70 percent thanks to this automated extraction system, he adds.
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Northeast Analytical, Inc., Develops a Method for Determining PCBs in Water Using Horizon Technology Solution
Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) are a worldwide contamination problem. Because PCBs are long lived in the environment and bioaccumulate throughout the food chain a great deal of research and regulations has been implemented. Northeast Analytical met the challenge by optimizing an SPE method based on the Horizon Technology SPE-DEX 4790 instrumentation.
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Bentazone in River Water
When the Bavarian Water Management Agency lowered the detection limit of Bentazone  to 50 ng/L for the year-long study they were conducting of the Isar River, they had to develop an entirely new automated SPE method that was able to handle the influent samples and achieve the desired detection limit.
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