AMETEK Acquires ICP-MS Firm

/0 Comments/in , /by

Berwyn, PA 8/4/16—AMETEK, a supplier of electronic instruments and electro-mechanical devices, has acquired Nu Instruments for an undisclosed amount. Nu provides magnetic sector MS systems used for elemental and isotopic analysis, and has annual sales of around $25 million. “Its products and markets are highly complementary with our CAMECA advanced elemental analysis business, and it […]

Read more →

MS & LC/MS

/0 Comments/in , /by

Company Announcements In March, Microsaic Systems named Christopher Buckley to its Board. Most recently, he was a Global Brand director at Novartis. Waters announced in March that the University of California San Diego School of Medicine’s Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine joined its Centers of Innovation Program. In April, SCIEX announced a collaboration with CRO […]

Read more →

Dietary Supplement Adulteration Testing

/0 Comments/in , , , /by

In the US, dietary supplements (DS) are not required to undergo the same stringent testing, standardization and regulation as pharmaceutical drugs, leaving opportunities for DS companies to make misleading claims, mislabel packages and use contaminated ingredients. Adulteration of DS has long been a concern of consumers and regulatory bodies due to the lack of required […]

Read more →

ASMS 2016: Expanding the MS Market

/0 Comments/in , /by

The annual American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS) conference was once again marked by a robust technical program and multiple new product releases. Held this year in San Antonio, Texas, registration for the conference totaled 6,267, up 2.9% from last year, when the conference was held in St. Louis, Missouri (see IBO 6/15/15). One of […]

Read more →