News | December 4, 2006

Shimadzu's GCMS-QP2010 Plus For Food And Flavors Sciences

Columbia, MD - In food and flavors science, accuracy, sensitivity, and reliability of instrumentation are critical to consistent, safe, high-quality products. Shimadzu Scientific Instruments' (SSI) GCMS-QP2010 Plus is equipped with three technologies - AART, FASST, and COAST - that, combined with excellent hardware capabilities, meet the challenges in identifying complex samples.

  • AART (Automatic Adjustment of Retention Time) automatically identifies and quantifies all compounds after a column change without compromise in analysis parameters, ensuring precision and accuracy of target compounds.
  • FASST (Fast Automated Scan/SIM Technique) enables the GCMS-QP2010 Plus to acquire both Scan and SIM data on one peak. At a data acquisition frequency of 50 data points/second in Scan mode and up to 100 in SIM mode, high quality results are achieved - fast. FASST achieves superior spectra through high-quality quantitative and qualitative analysis, resulting in accurate library search.
  • COAST (Creation of Automatic SIM (Scan/SIM) Table) allows easy setup of SIM parameters using the SIM table automatic creation function, enabling appropriate parameters to be set automatically when using FASST. Easy setting of compounds and automatic creation of Scan/SIM parameters make high-sensitivity SIM chromatograms simple.

In addition, Shimadzu's recently released Flavors and Fragrances Natural and Synthetic Compounds (FFNSC-MS) library contains approximately 1,200 mass spectra of various natural and synthetic flavor and fragrance compounds. During the library search, both library spectra and LRI data are compared with the unknown compounds.

"When mass spectra and LRI data are combined, identification of unknown compounds reaches an unrivalled level of accuracy," said Mark Taylor, product manager of GCMS at SSI. "Combined with AART, FASST, and COAST, the GCMS-QP2010 Plus enables the detection of compounds at lower trace levels with high reliability in faster analysis times."

The GCMS-QP2010 Plus features an extended mass range (1.5 to 1090 m/z) to allow analysis of higher mass compounds, an extended ion source temperature range (from 100° to 300° C) to increase flexibility and reduce maintenance, and dual turbo pumps to increase sensitivity and column flow capacity.

SOURCE: Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc.