Contamination of water supplies may occur from natural deposits, as well as from industrial, agricultural, and household sources. A high level of drinking water quality is essential, whether the source is bottled water or the tap. In addition, the environment is easily damaged by contaminants from industry in wastewater or improper disposal practices and requires continuous monitoring of these pollutants. But no matter what the cause, monitoring the levels of these contaminants accurately in drinking water, wastewater, surface water and ground water is essential for ensuring quality and protecting human health. Our water analysis solutions enable precise, high-throughput analysis of trace metals at very low concentrations, microplastics, and oil -in water to name but a few.

Volatile and Semi Volatile Organics

Disinfection Byproducts

Pesticides

Metals and Trace Metals Analysis

Microplastics in Water

Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products (PPCPs), Hormones & Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)

Effective air analysis is critical in a variety of applications and environments. Whether for greenhouse gas monitoring or for maintaining air supply quality in buildings, mines, or other environments, detecting and measuring a wide range of airborne contaminants is a vital, ongoing challenge. There are numerous health hazards associated with toxic air contaminants as well as significant monitoring difficulties due to the particle size, scarcity and matrix complexity. As regulations have become more stringent, it is important that analysts can quickly and easily gather uniform samples and execute multiple testing methods to detect an increasing list of harmful substances.

Air Monitoring

The analysis of soil contaminants and the determination of their effects on human health and crop growth are critically important areas of environmental monitoring. The scope of soil monitoring can range from the analysis of trace toxic metals to organic contaminants, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Agilent's range of laboratory and field equipment ensure the highest standards of soil analysis.

Organics in Soil

Inorganics in Soil

Chemetrix leads the industry with products and services to help you deliver what your customers demand. Our instruments, systems, and supplies are used throughout the food production chain, including incoming inspection, new product development, quality control and assurance, and packaging.

Complex Matrices: Minimizing Lipids, Maximizing Recovery

In the industry for non-alcoholic beverages, wine, beer, or spirits there is an increasing focus on assessing the quality, purity and authenticity of both raw materials and final product. This increase in focus allows the production process itself to be controlled to ensure more consistent and higher quality products.

Non-Alcoholic Beverages

Alcoholic Beverages

Dietary supplements and their raw materials are diverse, from an extract in a tablet to a tea packet or oil bottle in the kitchen. Producers and regulators must ensure that active compounds are at levels expected. Authenticity testing is also needed especially where it goes beyond the active compounds which can be spiked into non-authentic products. Geographic origin, freshness and production-type can affect health benefits and also require testing. Chemetrix offers various techniques to achieve the analyses outlined by regulatory bodies.

Rapid Separation of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters

Analysis of Oil and Fat containing foods by fully automated sample preparation using a PAL3 coupled with a 7890 GC and a 5977 MSD system according to AOAC 996.01

Purify Complex Samples with High Selectivity

Multiclass Determination of Organic Contaminants in Red Chili and Turmeric Powders

The infant formula industry needs reliable tests to be certain that the nutritional content of their products is finely balanced to ensure the well-being of the infants who consume them. They also need to ensure that their raw materials are free from harmful contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides, or other pollutants. Chemetrix provides powerful atomic and molecular spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, gas and liquid chromatography techniques to ensure simple and effective routine analysis.

Infant Formula

Dairy Analysis

A variety of unwanted compounds may be found in food products as a result of packaging or processing. Both food and packaging manufacturers need to tightly control such compounds, as do governmental regulators for ongoing protection and in assessing human exposure or toxicity levels. Chemetrix offers several techniques to meet the challenges of locating and measuring specific, trace-level products in complex food matrices.

Packaging

Plant growth and development largely depends on the composition and concentration of mineral nutrients available in the plant leaves and other tissues. These essential nutrients are divided into macronutrients (required in larger quantities because of their structural roles in the plant) and micronutrients (required in smaller quantities because they tend to be involved in regulatory roles in the plant). A deficiency or enrichment of nutrients may result in decreased plant productivity, crop yield or plant quality.

Elemental Analysis in Plants

Elemental Analysis in Soils

Whether the goal is food safety, ensuring quality or establishing provenance, measuring the trace element content of foods and beverages that we all consume is of paramount importance. While some elements are essential for our well-being at low concentrations, others like lead and chromium are highly toxic and more still are being linked to viral, neurological and other diseases. Food scares related to contamination or poor quality not only constitute a health risk, they also undermine consumer confidence. This can lead to lost earnings through reduced sales and loss of credibility through adverse publicity.

Elemental Analysis of Foods

Pesticides in Food

Mycotoxins & Biotoxins

Veterinary Drugs Screening

Seafood Analysis

As global market and social pressures demand that farming methods become ever more sustainable, soil quality and fertilizer analysis have become increasingly important variables in determining crop yields. However, due to the fact that fertilizers contain large volumes of active ingredients, and that contaminants being measured are present in low concentrations, effective analysis is challenging. Considerable emphasis has been placed on fast, accurate, and precise determination of many elements in agricultural soil. Analyzing micronutrient contents enables an assessment of the nutrient levels available for plants, and highlights possible deficiencies, but systems must be able to measure a wide range of ingredients. Chemetrix offers a range of instruments to meet this challenge. The comprehensive range of techniques available results in significantly faster and simpler sample preparation and analysis, and a single analytical system may be used to measure all necessary elements of interest.

Elemental Analysis of Fertilizers

Whether you manufacture or test cannabis, you face the challenge of delivering high-quality products, increasing sample volume, and meeting emerging regulations. Chemetrix offers best-in-class cannabis and hemp analysis solutions featuring robust instruments, software, services, and consumables. Our team of experts can develop, implement, and optimize methods to get you up and running quickly.

Useful Resources

Potency Testing

Pesticide & Mycotoxin Testing

Residual Solvent Testing

Terpenes Testing for Cannabis & Hemp

Heavy Metals

Chemetrix provides numerous turnkey analyzers to meet industry regulatory methods and standards. Turnkey analyzers are pre-configures, factory tested and installed with ready-to-go methods.

Agilent Gas Chromtography Analyzers

PAC AC GC Analyzers

PAC Elemetal Analyzers

Natural Gas Analysis

Analysis of the constituents of hydrocarbon streams is critical for most QA/QC laboratories in the chemical and petrochemical industry as the existence of impurities directly impacts product quality and performance. Most QA/QC laboratories depend upon standardized industry methods and approaches to ensure both agreement with their clients on product specifications and the quality of their results. Agilent has more than 40 years of collaboration with ASTM International in the creation and management of standardized analysis procedures, and many have been developed on Agilent instruments including GC, LC, MS, FTIR and GC/MS technologies. We also continue to monitor emerging requirements and trends in order to introduce the new methods needed by the industry through this partnership.

Metals and Trace Metals Analysis

The conversion of crude oil, a complex mixture of many chemical compounds, into usable fractions involves a difficult, multi-stage process of distillation and chemical reactions. Process engineers are required to manage complex processes that separate crude oil into different component fractions based on boiling point ranges. The scale and associated economics of these processes demand specialised characterisation of crude oil and its fractions in order to plan processing, ensure product quality and optimise operational expenditures. Such specialized characterization helps refineries to maximise profitability and efficiency. For decades, we have provided refiners with reliable analytical solutions designed to meet the measurement challenges associated with refining, distillation, output characterization and additional downstream processes. Our suite of advanced analytical products, including GC, Micro GC, Software, GC Columns and associated accessories, helps laboratories generate actionable data at lower costs, for optimized processes and increased efficiency.

Metals and Trace Metals Analysis

We understand that quality control, productivity and compliance are critical, and we have solutions to help you: • Identify and quantify trace nitrosamine, mutagenic impurities with the sensitivity needed to meet regulatory requirements. • Analyse residual solvents, extractables and leachables, elemental and other impurities confidently. • Evaluate dissolution properties for ease of qualification. • Determine content uniformity for batch release in a fraction of the time. • Comply with regulatory requirements for data integrity and validation. Count on innovative solutions from Chemetrix to streamline your analyses and deliver accuracy and reproducibility as well as robustness and reliability.

Dissolution Testing

Residual Solvent Testing

Elemental Impurities

Nitrosamine Mutagenic Impurities

Extractables & Leachables

We understand that, in manufacturing productivity and compliance are critical, and we have solutions to help you: • Identify incoming raw materials with fast and cost effective through container testing. • Comply with regulatory requirements for data integrity and validation. Count on innovative solutions from Chemetrix to streamline your analyses and deliver accuracy and reproducibility as well as robustness and reliability.

Raw Materials Verification

TOC Analysis

The global opioid crisis. Cannabis legalisation. Novel psychoactive substances. Prescription drug abuse. All these factors are increasing demand for forensics laboratory testing and overwhelming forensic laboratories with the scope and volume of required tests. In these tumultuous times, whether the need is for unambiguous identification and quantitation of controlled substances, rapid screening for illicit drugs or unknown compounds, expanded designer drug testing, cannabis potency testing, or supporting law enforcement with out-of-laboratory testing, Chemetrix offers robust, reliable solutions to the most challenging problems.

Direct analysis of Controlled Substances

Seized/Controlled Substances Identification

Rapid Screening and Identification of Novel Psychoactive Substances

Forensic Toxicology analysis determines the presence or absence of drugs and drug metabolites, chemicals, volatile substances, gases and metals in human tissues and other materials for law enforcement or anti-doping purposes. While traditionally an investigation of known compounds, today’s forensics toxicologists are increasingly called on to identify unknown substances. Whether you need to screen and confirm known compounds, identify unknowns, or advance forensic research, we have solutions to meet your needs – today, and in the future.

Doping Control

Forensics Toxicology

Blood Alcohol Analysis

Workplace drug-testing programs are designed as prevention and deterrent methods and are often part of a comprehensive drug-free workplace program. Chemetrix provides a range of testing solutions from various samples such as urine, hair and saliva. Our workflows include SOPs with sample prep descriptions to streamline implementation

Urine Testing

Saliva Testing

Hair Testing

Blood & Serum Screening

With our comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading LC/MS, GC/MS, and ICP-MS instruments as well as our RapidFire and sample preparation automation offerings, Agilent can help you take advantage of the growing world of MS analysis from sample preparation to your final result.

Applications Compendium

HPLC & LC-MS

GC & GC-MS

ICP-MS

Automation

Bioenergetics drives all biological processes, with cellular metabolism being the central orchestrator of biological function and cell health. Metabolic programs are key indicators of healthy cell function; they are also a powerful predictor of cellular performance in in vitro disease models. Metabolic programs can also be tuned in drug discovery, through modulation of metabolic targets, signaling, and substrates—toward reinstating a healthy phenotype, or to optimize and enhance cell performance.

Applications in Cell Metabolism

Automation Workflows

Critical monitoring of metallic elements for contaminants in manufacturing is vital to ensure product quality, and analysis solutions capable of identifying a wide variety of impurities are required, for both in-lab and remote use. As part of our ore analysis solutions, Chemetrix offers easy-to-use, rugged and reliable instruments that are suitable for even the most challenging environments and can determine major and trace analytes in ore samples, or perform precise impurity analysis.

Metals and Trace Metals analysis

Precise analysis and rapid sample turnaround times are essential for mineral processors and geologists. In a competitive global environment, geochemical laboratories are challenged with analysing an increasing sample load within lower and lower detection limits, as well as managing interferences due to ascertaining quantities of valuable metals in decreasing sampling amounts. To meet these challenges, Chemetrix offers a range of flexible, accurate and robust systems that are pushing the boundaries of sensitive metals analysis.

Rock and Mineral Composition

Chemetrix offers reliable and easy to use range of Chromatogrpahy and Spectroscopy systems deliver excellent levels of sensitivity for impurity analysis, ensuring safety and product quality at all production stages.

Consumer Products

Packaging

Efficient, flexible analysis for materials research across a wide range of chemistries and manufacturing materials requires a full range of capabilities and instrumentation. Accurate and reliable information are essential for chemical analysis in basic research and fast, efficient analysis is vital to the speed and economy of material manufacturing. We offer accurate, stable and robust instruments that quickly deliver actionable results for manufacturing and process testing, ensuring your operations maintain productivity and output quality. Our easy to use range of advanced technology, including GC/MS, ICP-MS and FTIR instruments, delivers the sensitivity needed for the analysis of composite materials, purity testing and advanced material research. In addition, automation solutions and accessories ensure increased efficiency and robust performance in every application.

Polymers, Composites & Plastics

Product Quality and Defect Analysis

Specialty Films & Coatings

Agilent Omics solutions are used for, disease research, toxicology, environmental analysis, agriculture, biofuel development and nutrition. Metabolomics results are often combined with gene expression and or proteomics studies to provide a comprehensive understanding of the biology. Just becuase understanding complex biological systems can be difficult does not mean your workflow solutions should be too.

Metabolomics

Proteomics

Lipidomics

As the size of semiconductors in integrated circuits continues to shrink, the impacts of trace level contaminants, particularly metals, on manufacturing yields are growing. Only instruments such as Agilent's Triple Quadrupole ICP-MS’s are able to provide the high levels of sensitivity needed to examine the purity, particulates and packaging of semiconductors effectively. Our solutions enable the direct analysis of chemicals, eliminating dilution and sample contamination issues, and are supported by a comprehensive suite of sample handling, automation tools, and an unrivaled support structure for semiconductor users.

Contamination Control

Semiconductor Process Chemical Purity