ChemLinked
China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) issued the draft Regulation on Chemical Substance Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on 8 Jan. The new regulation represents a complete overhaul of China’s chemical regulatory framework and will have a huge impact on the industry in terms of their compliance obligations. The deadline for public comment is 20 Feb 2019.
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Labmanager
On-Line supercritical fluid extraction – supercritical fluid chromatography – mass spectrometry (SFE-SFC-MS) holds with it the promise for more streamlined sample preparation combined with high efficiency separations for myriad applications in food, environmental, forensics, pharmaceutical, and biological sciences. Even so, the wide application base with respect to types of samples and analytes, combined with the multitude of instrumental settings to be optimized, makes method development an initially daunting task.
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