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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We Have an LC-MS!
Posted on October 21st, 2019
We’ve long been pretty widely referred to as ‘those plucky, excellent looking bunch of scientists who stick autosamplers on the…
What You Might Have Missed at the 2019 SIFT-MS Interest Group Meeting
Posted on August 21st, 2019
It’s been a few weeks now since the end of the event. Those of you who attended, we hope you…
2019 SIFT-MS Interest Group Meeting: Day 2 Round-Up
Posted on July 15th, 2019
As promised, we move onto a round-up of the second and final day of the 2019 SIFT-MS Interest Group Meeting….
14 Reasons Why You Should be Using SIFT-MS
Posted on June 13th, 2019
Recently, Mark wrote a blog post on the Multi-Port Inlet (MPI) for SIFT-MS, referring to process monitoring. Since we installed…
SIFT-MS, The MultiPort Inlet and Processes Monitoring – The Ideal Partnership
Posted on May 29th, 2019
People often ask me, Mark, what’s your favourite tube? Is it the London Underground? Perhaps it’s YouTube with its thousands…
Seven Speakers Confirmed for the SIFT-MS Interest Group Meeting
Posted on May 15th, 2019
This 2 day event will take place at the Hotel Felix and Anatune on the 9th/10th July 2019, and will…
SIFT-MS Interest Group Meeting
Posted on April 25th, 2019
Anatune Ltd and Syft Technologies host the Interest and Discussion Symposium for Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry. This two…
Lifecycle of Food Analysis Workshop
Posted on February 7th, 2019
Now you have the dates firmly saved, it’s time to let you know a bit more about what you can…
Analytical Chemistry – 4 Predictions for 2019
Posted on January 7th, 2019
You can’t change or improve anything without making dependable chemical measurements, so to some degree, predictions in the World of…
Future Technology Protecting the Past
Posted on October 4th, 2018
When you are asked to look behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum, you don’t say no. I was…
What We’re Looking Forward to at BMSS 39
Posted on September 10th, 2018
Marvin Shaw’s Keynote Speech There’s been much talk about the possibilities and limitations of real-time volatile analysis in our industry…
SIFT-MS Strategic Applications Chemist Vacancy
Posted on May 24th, 2018
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) is undergoing dramatic growth and is sparking some amazing job opportunities. Anatune is…
What’s that Smell?
Posted on May 23rd, 2018
The detection of odour or trying to find out what it is you are smelling is a complex challenge. The human…
Fuel of the Future? Is Your Hydrogen Pure Enough?
Posted on May 15th, 2018
Earlier this year, Mark Perkins, one of our SIFT-MS specialists took our SIFT-MS to work with Thomas Bacquart and his…
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch?
Posted on April 17th, 2018
Ok, it’s rare to be offered a free lunch (come and visit us at Anatune for a lab demo and…
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…
Aroma Workshop
Posted on January 4th, 2018
We at Anatune are going to be running a 2 day workshop on the 6th-7th March to help people in…
If Beer Tastes of Vegetables, Does it Count as One of Your 5 a Day?
Posted on December 20th, 2017
As we approach the Christmas festivities, many of you will be enjoying a festive tipple. Analysis of alcohol seems to…
Anatune Applications Achievements in 2017
Posted on December 15th, 2017
We have great things coming your way in 2018, that have come out of the work done in 2017. So…
2017 SIFT-MS User Meeting
Posted on October 10th, 2017
SIFT-MS is one of the fastest growing analytical techniques, with a sizeable community of analysts using it for a variety…
SIFT-MS Workshop for Pharma and CROs
Posted on October 10th, 2017
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry offers some big benefits for analysts working within pharmaceutical and contract research organisations. Analyses…
Why You Should be Interested in SIFT-MS…
Posted on September 22nd, 2017
Anatune has now been Syft Technologies’ UK distributor for just over 2½ years and a number of our customers are…
2017 International Symposium on Vehicle Emissions and Interior Air Quality – Is there a way to make life easier and more efficient?
Posted on August 15th, 2017
Syft Technologies have been working with a number of automotive manufacturers for the last few years to investigate the significant…
High Peak Health and Safety Challenge
Posted on August 8th, 2017
Recently two of our application chemists Kathy Ridgway and Jon Dunscombe visited Buxton in the Peak District with the SIFT-MS. …
Volatile Biomarkers in Biomedical Research
Posted on July 25th, 2017
Why are Volatile Biomarkers Important in Biomedical Research? The pattern of individual’s volatile metabolites (volatolome) can be used to understand…
SIFT-MS Offers a Rich New Source of Academic Research Topics
Posted on July 18th, 2017
When a powerful new analytical technique comes along, it always offers novel ways of looking at existing problems – whatever…
A Brief History of… SYFT
Posted on June 29th, 2017
This month’s edition of The Analytical Scientist contains a very interesting and informative article by Professor Murray McEwan, Chief Technical…
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…
Automated Analytical Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Posted on May 31st, 2017
Have you had the uncomfortable experience of interacting with an analytical instrument supplier, with little understanding of the Pharmaceutical Industry…
Intertek – The First CRO in the UK to Use SIFT-MS
Posted on May 11th, 2017
In February 2017, Anatune was pleased to deliver an automated Voice200ultra SIFT-MS to Intertek Pharmaceutical Services in Manchester. Intertek is…
A New Twist on Landfill Gas Analysis
Posted on May 4th, 2017
Landfill sites and other sources of biogas benefit from trace gas analysis. Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) has…
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…
15 reasons why Ireland needs to know more about SIFT-MS
Posted on January 30th, 2017
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry is a new and fast growing technique – and no-one in Ireland is using…
GC-MS Automation and SIFT-MS come to Ireland
Posted on January 6th, 2017
Learn how you could save money, solvent, time and get results that are faster and more reproducible! Anatune, the distributors…
We Always Thought it was a Brilliant Idea!!
Posted on December 14th, 2016
And it’s nice to be proved right!!! The Automated SIFT-MS began life as an informal development project with no specific…
Training at Anatune
Posted on October 20th, 2016
On Monday, I was fortunate enough to spend the day at Anatune, in Cambridge. I had emailed Dan Carrier, their…
Anatune Heads to Scotland for Distilled Spirits
Posted on October 19th, 2016
If you want authentic Scotch, you obviously go to Scotland and this meant there was only one place to host…
On the Road Again: Part 2 – Filling the Analytical Gaps
Posted on October 14th, 2016
Following our excursion to Eastbourne, we packed up the SIFT-MS and headed North to a customers site for a couple…
On the Road Again: Part 1 – Passive Drinking at BMSS 2016
Posted on October 4th, 2016
This September, we once again took our Voice200ultra SIFT-MS on the road, with visits to customers and conferences. The first…
Showcasing SIFT-MS Webinars
Posted on September 7th, 2016
Syft Technologies are holding a live Webinar on September 15th – ‘Forget Chromatography: Comprehensive Instant Analysis with SIFT-MS’. In this…
Anatune at BMSS 2016
Posted on August 31st, 2016
The 37th BMSS Annual Meeting is being held on the 13th-15th September, at the Winter Gardens in Eastbourne and Anatune…
Seminar: The Analysis of Biomarkers in Breath and Body Fluids by SIFT-MS
Posted on July 21st, 2016
The composition of human breath varies depending primarily upon physiological and pathophysiological state, diet, exercise and environmental factors. A great…
SIFT-MS: Unsurpassed Real-Time Selectivity
Posted on July 5th, 2016
There are eight SIFT-MS reagent ions (H3O+, NO+, O2+, O–, O2–, OH–, NO2–, and NO3–) for rapid, comprehensive gas analysis. There…
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…
The Inventor of SIFT-MS visits Anatune
Posted on May 24th, 2016
Patrik Spanel and David Smith with Anatune’s Ray Perkins and Mark Perkins, above. On Tuesday 17th May, we were…
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…
SIFT-MS – Try Before you Buy
Posted on March 11th, 2016
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry is a powerful new technology that offers the potential for great improvements in the…
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…
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…
Focus on the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories
Posted on November 3rd, 2015
It is nice to find occasions to celebrate the great work done by some of our customers and now is…
Sorry for making the lab smell…
Posted on October 22nd, 2015
At the beginning of this month I had the pleasure of completing the final in a series of three two-day…
SIFT-MS with Automated Sampling of Tedlar Bags
Posted on October 14th, 2015
We are looking for a partner or partners to help take this project forward. We have recently looked at the…
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…
Selective, Instant Ultratrace Gas Analysis without Chromatography: Introducing SIFT-MS
Posted on October 1st, 2015
Live FREE Webcast – Wednesday 7th October, 2015 at 11am EDT/ 10am CDT/ 8am PDT Hosted…
BMSS Annual Meeting 2015
Posted on August 27th, 2015
The BMSS Annual Meeting is being held on the 15th-17th September 2015, at the University of Birmingham, and Anatune will…
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…
SIFT-MS Interest Group Meeting
Posted on July 31st, 2015
SIFT-MS is an important new analytical technique for the fast, real time analysis of volatile organic compounds. On Tuesday 20th…
Method Development – But Not as We Know It
Posted on May 27th, 2015
Last week was SIFT-MS workshop week and we had a full house of customers in the lab, most of whom…
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,…
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) Workshops
Posted on March 30th, 2015
SIFT-MS is a new and rapidly growing analytical technique that offers real-time, targeted analysis of volatile organic species in air….
The Two Kinds of GC-MS Methods
Posted on March 17th, 2015
There are two sorts of GC-MS methods: 1. The ones that just work. 2. The tough, frustrating, stressful, expensive, unreliable,…
Why Selective Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) Matters…
Posted on March 12th, 2015
Selected Ion Flow Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) is for analysts who want to make fast, real-time measurements of volatile (and…