Polar Pesticide Testing

Polar Pesticide Testing

Detect, quantify, and identify polar pesticide residues with Waters LC-MS/MS workflows that deliver stable retention times, separation power to avoid false detections, and sensitivity to exceed current regulatory requirements. With Waters, your lab can simplify your analysis of highly anionic polar pesticides and accelerate time to results.

Detect, quantify, and identify polar pesticide residues with Waters LC-MS/MS workflows that deliver stable retention times, separation power to avoid false detections, and sensitivity to exceed current regulatory requirements. With Waters, your lab can simplify your analysis of highly anionic polar pesticides and accelerate time to results.
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Overview

Laboratories analyzing food commodities for glyphosate and associated highly polar anionic pesticides can face complex and time-consuming workflows. Waters direct analysis application solutions deliver retention times you can rely on, separation power to avoid false detections, and sensitivity to exceed current regulatory requirements.

Using the combination of Waters Anionic Polar Pesticide column, Atlantis BEH C18 AX, and ACQUITY BEH Amide columns on ACQUITY UPLC Systems coupled with Xevo TQ Absolute or Xevo TQ-S micro MS, you can detect, quantify, and identify residues with confidence. The interpretation of data and full workflow is supported within waters_connect for Quantitation and can be streamlined with support from our expert application chemists.

Applications

Implementing effective methods for the determination of residues of highly polar, ionic pesticides has been an important objective for food testing laboratories over the last two decades. Learn about Waters expertise with methods for the determination of highly polar pesticides in food with these application notes.

Implementing effective methods for the determination of residues of highly polar, ionic pesticides has been an important objective for food testing laboratories over the last two decades. Learn about Waters expertise with methods for the determination of highly polar pesticides in food with these application notes.

Application Notes

Brochure: Anionic Polar Pesticides - Overcoming the Challenges for Routine Testing

The exceptional sensitivity of Waters technologies provides excellent detection limits for difficult polar pesticide compounds, reaching low milligram per kilogram (mg/kg) levels in crude matrix extracts. This brochure provides an overview of the Waters solutions that ensure confidence in your results, detecting levels far below current maximum residue level (MRL) requirements.

The exceptional sensitivity of Waters technologies provides excellent detection limits for difficult polar pesticide compounds, reaching low milligram per kilogram (mg/kg) levels in crude matrix extracts. This brochure provides an overview of the Waters solutions that ensure confidence in your results, detecting levels far below current maximum residue level (MRL) requirements.
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Solutions

Waters LC-MS systems offer absolute performance in separation and sensitivity for polar pesticides analysis.

Waters LC-MS systems offer absolute performance in separation and sensitivity for polar pesticides analysis.

Defining compact performance - robust sensitivity beyond expectation

Defining compact performance - robust sensitivity beyond expectation
Xevo TQ-S micro Tandem Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer

Achieve robust MS sensitivity with the Xevo TQ-S micro, a compact tandem (triple) quadrupole mass spectrometer with reliable performance, a wide dynamic range, and high data acquisition rates.

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Absolute performance for lowering regulatory limits

Absolute performance for lowering regulatory limits
Xevo TQ Absolute

Achieve and maintain high performance and productivity with significantly increased sensitivity for negative ionizing compounds with the Xevo TQ Absolute, our compact, sustainable tandem quadrupole mass spectrometer.

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Complex chromatography challenges, solved

Complex chromatography challenges, solved
ACQUITY UPLC I-Class PLUS System

Improve your resolving power, lower your system volume, and achieve the tallest, sharpest peaks with the ACQUITY UPLC I-Class PLUS System to maximize the sensitivity of your methods, enhance the characterization of your samples, and improve your productivity.

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Waters software streamlines data acquisition, processing, and reporting of polar pesticides test results.

Waters software streamlines data acquisition, processing, and reporting of polar pesticides test results.

Harness real-time intelligence to convert sample data into valuable knowledge

Harness real-time intelligence to convert sample data into valuable knowledge
MassLynx Mass Spectrometry Software

Acquire, analyze, manage and share your consolidated mass spectrometry information including nominal mass, exact mass, MS/MS, and exact MS/MS data with MassLynx Mass Spectrometry Software.

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Our reliable and robust columns and consumables can be easily integrated into your polar pesticides testing workflows.

Our reliable and robust columns and consumables can be easily integrated into your polar pesticides testing workflows.

Retention without derivatization

Retention without derivatization
Anionic Polar Pesticide Column, 130 Å, 5 µm, 2.1 mm x 100 mm, 1/pk

Waters Anionic Polar Pesticide Column has been designed to provide quick, reproducible testing methods for highly anionic polar pesticides in agriculture products and finished foods for reliable low-level detection while maintaining key analyte separations.

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Separate polar analytes spanning a wide range of polarity, structural moiety, and pKa

Separate polar analytes spanning a wide range of polarity, structural moiety, and pKa
ACQUITY UPLC BEH Amide Column, 130 Å, 1.7 µm, 2.1 mm X 150 mm, 1/pk

Retain extremely polar compounds, including carbohydrates and sugars. Based on BEH technology the with ACQUITY BEH Amide Columns that offer a chemically stable, trifunctionally bonded amide phase that is stable from pH 2 to 12.

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Excellent retention for polar acidic analytes

Excellent retention for polar acidic analytes
Atlantis Premier BEH C18 AX Column, 1.7 µm, 2.1 x 100 mm, 1/pk

Obtain excellent retention for polar acidic analytes under reversed phase conditions with the Atlantis Premier BEH C18 AX Columns that are stable from pH 2–10 and have complimentary selectivity to traditional C18 stationary phases.

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Achieve testing efficiencies and accurate results using streamlined Waters services and support.

Achieve testing efficiencies and accurate results using streamlined Waters services and support.

Your success is just a click away

Your success is just a click away
Waters Global Services

Optimize your laboratory's productivity and success with Waters Global Services. Maintain peak system performance, minimize downtime, address application challenges, and support stringent compliance requirements.

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Make science more accessible

Make science more accessible
Payment Solutions

Maximize resources and minimize risk with payment options from Waters Capital, including upgrading aging equipment, getting customized support, and bundling services into one monthly payment.

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The data speaks for itself

The data speaks for itself
Example chromatography of the 1st and 200th injection (blue and red traces, respectively) of an organic wheat flour matrix standard, 0.02 mg/kg (5 ng/mL in vial concentration). These were a set of continuous injections without any intervention by the operator. Retention time RSDs for all compounds across the whole run were within 0.3%.
Chromatograms of chlorate, perchlorate, and bromate from the analysis of matrix-matched standards (infant formula) at 0.1 µg/kg.
Chromatograms of the anionic polar pesticide and metabolites from the analysis of a cucumber matrix standard at 1 µg/kg (in vial concentration 0.5 ng/mL).
Summary of the measured recoveries (%) and repeatability (%RSDr) from the analysis of spikes from cucumber, rice, soyabean, and milk.
Typical calibration graphs for anionic polar pesticides over the range in 0.005–0.20 mg/kg (5–200 ppb), in cucumber.

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Learn more about Polar Pesticide Testing Solutions.

Learn more about Polar Pesticide Testing Solutions.
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