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Cannabis Testing Laboratory Solutions

5 Dec 2018

When purchasing analytical equipment, it is important to know that you are not just buying an instrument but investing in your lab’s future. Shimadzu not only provides the instrumentation but also the technical knowledge and support to help your lab be successful. We can assist with method development, instrument training, and many other areas of support like maintenance to ensure your systems are constantly operating at an exceptional level. From seed to sale, from accurate cannabis potency profiles to reliable, highly sensitive pesticide screening, let us deliver scalable, turnkey solutions to meet your testing needs for today and tomorrow.

GCMS-QP2010 Ultra Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer

Capable of fast data measurement with sensitivity five times higher than previous models, the GCMS-QP2010 Ultra offers improved applicability for comprehensive two-dimensional GC and ultra-high separation. Shimadzu used new, patented mass spectrometry technology called Advanced Scanning Speed Protocol (ASSP™), a firmware protocol that optimizes the ion transmission hardware parameters with a highly efficient data collection algorithm, to increase data acquisition speed up to 20,000 u/sec and 100 Hz. ASSP also provides the added benefit of maintaining system sensitivity at elevated scan speeds. To help increase throughput, the GCMS-QP2010 Ultra features high-speed oven cooling for shorter analysis cycles. Using a double jet cooling system, the GC cools from 350 to 50 degrees Celsius in less than three minutes. The combination of a high-speed GC method and a high-speed cooling oven can reduce the analysis cycle by up to 50 percent. To further increase lab efficiency, the GCMS-QP2010 Ultra can accept two narrow-bore capillary columns into the MS simultaneously. Its twin-line MS system allows users to switch applications without physically modifying the column installation. Users simply decide which columns are required for analysis and choose the associated injection port.

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Nexera HPLC System

Shimadzu's Nexera is a genuine all-around HPLC that enables various types of analysis including conventional LC, ultra fast LC and ultra high-pressure LC up to 130 MPa without compromising performance and data quality. The LC-30A Nexera delivers high-speed and high-resolution analysis without sacrificing basic performance parameters such as excellent precision, near-zero carryover, good linearity, stability and ruggedness. Offering these attributes enables Nexera to provide superior performance in various fields, covering high-resolution and high-speed separation, as well as high-sensitivity detection. Features of the Shimadzu LC-30A Nexera include: • New zero carryover• Absorbance detectors with excellent stability and sensitivity• Precise sample injection regardless of volume• Finest Reproducibility under Ultra-High Speed• Reduced otal analysis time• Large sample capacity for high throughput sample analysis

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Prominence UFLC-XR

The Prominence UFLC Series is an ultra-high-speed LC that achieves both ultra-high-speed analysis and ultra-high separation, based on high analysis precision and reliability. Utilizing features of the Prominence UFLC, which offered high speed as well as high analysis accuracy and reliability, thereby increasing analysis cost-efficiency, we have developed the Prominence UFLCXR, which achieves greater data quality by means of higher separation performance. While maintaining the high analysis accuracy and reliability cultivated with the Prominence series by using a high-speed separation column and optimizing the system, we have increased separation performance to a level greater than that of conventional LC. The ability to reliably perform the high-separation, high-sensitivity detection of trace compounds is required. Improving separation performance by simply increasing the column length also increases the analysis time, which reduces analysis efficiency. With the Prominence UFLC, high-speed analysis while maintaining a high degree of analysis accuracy and reliability is possible and with the Prominence UFLCXR, greater separation performance is attained. In order to achieve the ultimate in high separation performance, column efficiency has been improved by optimizing the balance between the particle diameter of the XR-ODS and XRII-ODS high-speed separation column and the column length, and the system has been optimized to attain the highest possible level of column performance.The combination of the Prominence UFLCXR and a Shim-pack XR-ODS II column (length: 150 mm) achieves a level of separation performance equivalent to that of at least a 250-mm column containing packing material with a particle diameter of 5 µm. The wide dynamic range of the SPD-20A detector enables the high-separation, high-sensitivity detection of fine peaks, such as those obtained for minute quantities of impurities in pharmaceuticals, and thereby enables highly reliable analysis in which the slightest presence of impurities is not missed. Also, the low-carryover SIL-20AXR autosampler supports high-accuracy analysis.Prominence UFLC-XR Features: Excellent Reproducibility and Low Sample Carryover Included a high-performance pump, an autosampler capable of a high level of injection reproducibility. The analysis time was a quarter of that required by a general-purpose LC.

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