Ask the Experts Panel: Pesticides by LC/MS

Event Overview: Pesticide analysis can feel like an uphill battle: an ever-expanding list of target compounds, increasingly stringent regulations that drive lower detection limits, and constantly evolving sample matrices make it challenging to keep up. Agilent's multi-class, multi-residue methods based on LC/MS and GC/MS, give you a leg up on routine monitoring, enabling high throughput, sensitive detection levels, and rapid quantitative analysis for hundreds of pesticides in a single sample.

Bring all your questions to be answered during our “Ask the Experts” panel. Join Agilent application scientists and engineers who will be available to provide guidance and expertise for all your hardware, software, and application related questions.

This day will be dedicated to pesticide work using LCMS. Some topics to be discussed are:

• Sample clean up in complex matrices: QuEChERS and beyond
• Analyte enrichment out of aqueous matrices
• New features in MH 12
• Tips and tricks for streamlining data review
• Facing challenging requirements on selectivity and sensitivity for pesticides analysis
• Decision tree for pesticides screening and quantitation

Presenter: Tina Chambers (Sample Prep Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies, Inc.)

Tina started her career in Analytical Chromatography with Varian in 2002 and spent the first five years providing technical support for their LC columns, GC columns and sample preparation portfolios. After three years in sales, she returned to her technical roots with Agilent in 2010, consulting with customers on efficient and optimized sample preparation strategies.

Presenter: Emily Parry, PhD (LC/MS Applications Scientist, Agilent Technologies, Inc.)

Emily has been with Agilent for four years. Prior to joining Agilent, Emily developed methods for environmental contaminants in a variety of human and environmental matrices using both targeted and untargeted mass spectrometry techniques. She worked as a researcher at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Public Health Institute. She received her Ph.D. degree in Environmental Chemistry from the University of California, Davis.

Presenter: Hui Zhao (LCMS Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies, Inc.)

Hui has extensive industry experience in developing and validating analytical methods for food/feed nutrition, food safety, dietary supplements and botanicals testing using a variety of analytical techniques and a breadth of sample preparation methodologies. She worked as a Research Scientist at Monsanto, EPL-Bioanalytical Services, Tate & Lyle, Inc. and Lead Staff Scientist at Covance Food Solutions. She holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Missouri. Hui currently works as an LCMS application scientist in Agilent.