The Latest on DART MS

September 2010

What's New with DART?
The latest developments and news on DART Mass Spectrometry

Greetings!,

We will be attending the AOAC meeting next week in Orlando so please stop by if you are in town. Here's also a recent paper on mycotoxins that you may find interesting, and a snapshot of some recent work from our labs.

Please have a look and contact me if you have any questions or comments. Thanks.

Regards,
Brian

Brian Musselman
President and CEO
IonSense, Inc.

IonSense at the AOAC Meeting - DART for Food Safety

We will be attending the AOAC Annual Meeting & Exposition September 26-29 in Orlando, FL. We will be highlighting the application of DART to problems in Food Safety.

Please stop by booth 111 to say hi and see the latest on DART for Food analysis.

There are also a number of presentations showing the application of DART to rapid screening.

Sara Edison, U.S. FDA - Forensic Chemistry Center "Rapid Screening for Pesticides Using Ambient Pressure Desorption Ionization (with) High Resolution Mass Spectrometry"

Jana Hajslova, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague "Ambient Mass Spectrometry with Ultra High Resolution Mass Spectrometry as a Powerful Tool for Rapid Profiling of Food"

IonSense, Inc. "Rapid Screening of Edible Oils Using Triglyceride and Fatty Acid Distributions Generated by Desorption Ionization Direct Analysis in Real Time (DART) Mass Spectrometry for Quality Assessment"

Lukas Vaclavik, Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague "Analysis of 3-Chloropropane-1,2-Diol (3-MCPD) Esters in Vegetable Oils Using Flow Injection Analysis-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (FIA-MS/MS) and Direct Analysis in Real Time-Mass Spectrometry (DART-MS)"

DART, QuEChERS, and Mycotoxins

Here is a recent paper on the rapid analysis of multiple mycotoxins isolated from wheat and maize by a modified QuEChERS procedure. The DART source was coupled to an Orbitrap mass spectrometer

Analysis of multiple mycotoxins in cereals under ambient conditions using direct analysis in real time (DART) ionization coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry

Lukas Vaclavika, Milena Zachariasovaa, Vojtech Hrbeka and Jana Hajslova

Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Department of Food Chemistry and Analysis, Technicka 5, 16628 Prague 6, Czech Republic

Directly Analyze Fruit Juice for Pesticides

We've recently been doing some work analyzing pesticides direclty out of fruit juice. In this case we used the 3+D Scanner to automatically analyze a series of spiked apple juice samples. The 30 samples of 100ppb to 10ppm were analyzed using SRM transition of m/z 230 > 199, and completed in 10 minutes with good linearity

30 Samples in
10 minutes

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About IonSense

IonSense, Inc. is developing technology for the analysis of materials by direct analysis in real time or DART mass spectrometry. DART MS provides rapid qualitative and quantitative sample analysis of bioanalytical, medicinal, forensic, and chemical synthesis products by ambient mass spectrometry.

DART Sources are available for most commercial LC/MS systems. Look here to see if your system is DART-ready

The latest news from IonSense:
IonSense to Present Rapid Screening Solutions for Food Safety at the AOAC Annual Meeting and Exposition