When The World Zags, Zig
Posted on February 3rd, 2020
Full application note Organochlorine compounds, along with other VOCs such as the BTEX group of compounds (benzene, toluene and the…
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Not All Vials Are Created Equally
Posted on November 28th, 2019
How many vials do you use in a year? Do you give much thought to the quality? Or do you…
Webinar – An Approach to Pharma Method Validation for Direct Mass Spectrometry
Posted on January 24th, 2019
On Tuesday 29th January, Dr Vaughan Langford of Syft Technologies and Anatune’s Dr Mark Perkins will be collaborating on a…
SIFT-MS – the Secret of Success
Posted on February 23rd, 2018
Anatune have been the UK and Ireland distributor for Syft Technologies for three years now and the Principal Scientist/Consultant, Dr…
Anatune is Just Around the Corner, Wherever You Are!
Posted on June 28th, 2017
Prague – on this occasion!! Anatune’s Mark Perkins (on screen) delivers a demonstration of SIFT-MS automation to SYFT Technologies…
Analysing Emissions of Packaging Materials
Posted on March 22nd, 2017
An interesting piece has been written by Quantum Analytics over in the US highlighting the advantages of real-time volatile analysis…
High-Throughput VOC and Inorganic Gas Analysis: Automated SIFT-MS
Posted on March 7th, 2017
Over the last 18 months we have been working in partnership with Syft Technologies to enhance the potential of…
Advances in the Chemical Analysis of Food
Posted on June 8th, 2016
I have been involved with the Royal Society of Chemistry Food group for several years and this year, we organised…
Workshop – The Latest in SIFT-MS
Posted on May 25th, 2016
The technology of SIFT-MS is developing rapidly in ways that are expanding what it can do still further. SIFT-MS offers…
SIFT-MS – On the Road
Posted on May 5th, 2016
There are many things you can do with a Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometer that would be impossible (or…
Twelve Months On…
Posted on April 7th, 2016
How time flies…! A year has passed since I began working for Anatune, and in many ways, the last twelve…
Automated Tedlar Bag Sampling using SIFT-MS
Posted on February 25th, 2016
Tedlar bags are a convenient and cost-effective option for sampling volatile organic compounds, for example, toxic industrial chemicals (TICs) in…
A Little Lunchtime Viewing
Posted on February 11th, 2016
At the end of January, Syft Technologies’ Dr Barry Prince delivered a webinar on ‘SIFT-MS and its Use in Environmental…
What is in an Air Freshener?
Posted on January 21st, 2016
An interesting article on the BBC News website – ‘Is there a danger from scented products?’. I don’t think I…
The Smell of Christmas
Posted on December 21st, 2015
Apart from Christmas trees (real ones of course!), for most people, the arrival of Christmas is signalled by the smell…
Improve Process Measurements with SIFT-MS
Posted on November 13th, 2015
Quality Control and Process Monitoring is always a compromise between the number of samples you would like to test (all…
Why SIFT-MS Changes Everything…
Posted on October 8th, 2015
To understand why, it is best to listen to analysts that are already using this powerful new technology. Together with…
Anatune and Syft Technologies exhibit at BMSS 2015
Posted on October 7th, 2015
On the 15th-17th September, Anatune joined Syft Technologies and exhibited at the 36th BMSS Annual Meeting at the University of…
The Positives of Negative Ions
Posted on September 8th, 2015
Syft Technologies have just announced a breakthrough in SIFT-MS technology by adding four negatively charged reagent ions to their Voice200ultra…
SIFT-MS – Spreading the Word…
Posted on September 3rd, 2015
Who doesn’t like the opportunity to learn something new, or be introduced to a new technology that you were previously…
Checking Phine’s New Car by SIFT-MS
Posted on August 12th, 2015
Phine Banks, Anatune’s Account Manager for the West of England, has just taken delivery of a new VW Golf. That…
Opportunities to Learn about SIFT-MS
Posted on July 31st, 2015
Most analytical laboratories will have both GC-MS and LC-MS. Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry can analyse for analytes of low molecular…
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) Applications
Posted on May 14th, 2015
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) is an analysis technique that offers real-time, targeted measurement of volatile and semi-volatile…
Answers Out of Thin Air (and Water)!
Posted on May 13th, 2015
Anatune recently took delivery of a Voice200Ultra SIFT-MS and for the last two weeks I have been demonstrating its capabilities,…
Dr Mark Perkins Joins the Anatune Team
Posted on May 13th, 2015
Anatune is pleased to welcome Dr Mark Perkins, who will be working alongside a really great team in the Applications…