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Organic Molecular Analysis Laboratory

Advanced analysis.  Practical solutions.

The Organic Molecular Analysis Laboratory helps researchers, agencies, and industry identify and measure organic compounds in environmental, biological, food, and material samples.  From PFAS and emerging contaminants to natural products and microplastics, we combine sensitive analytical instrumentation with expertise in method development to address your project's needs.

What we analyze

  • PFAS
  • Pesticides
  • Pharmaceuticals and personal care compounds
  • Persistent organic pollutants
  • Harmful algal toxins
  • Bioactive compounds
  • Cannabinoids
  • Microplastics and polymers

Sample types

  • Drinking water and wastewater
  • Surface water and groundwater
  • Soil and sediment
  • Fish, shellfish, and biological tissue
  • Food and plant material
  • Plastics, fibers, and other material

PFAS expertise

We provide PFAS analysis for drinking water and research involving environmental and biological samples. Our laboratory is certified by the Connecticut Department of Public Health for PFAS analysis in drinking water using EPA Method 537.1.

 

Instrumentation

Applications

Availability depends on the sample type and analytical method.
Perkin Elmer QSight500 UHPLC-MS/MS System
  • PFAS
  • Pesticides
  • Emerging contaminants
  • Food safety
SCIEX X500R Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatograph equipped with a Quadrupole Time-of-Flight High Resolution Mass Spectrometer (QToF-HRMS)
  • PFAS
  • Emerging contaminants
  • Algal toxins
  • Unknown screening
  • Metabolomics
  • Food safety
Waters Acquity Ultra Performance Liquid Chromatograph (UPLC) equipped with:
  • Tandem Mass Spectrometer (MS/MS)
  • Photodiode Array Detector (PDA)
  • Evaporative Light Scattering Detector (ELSD)
  • Fluorescence Detector (FLR)
  • PFAS
  • Pesticides
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Algal toxins
  • Natural products
  • Sugars and lipids
Agilent Gas Chromatograph-Tandem Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS/MS) 7890B/7000C-TQ
  • Pesticides
  • PCBs
  • PBDEs
  • PAHs
  • Bioaccumulation
  • Food safety
Agilent Gas Chromatograph Coupled with Mass Spectrometry 7890B/5977A MSD
  • Environmental contaminants
  • Pesticides
  • PAHs
  • Industrial chemicals
  • Unknown screening
Agilent Gas Chromatograph Coupled with Mass Spectrometry and Teledyne/Tekmar ATOMX XYZ Purge and Trap
  • Water quality
  • VOCs
  • Petroleum contaminants
  • Chlorinated solvents
  • Remediation
Perkin-Elmer Series LC300 High Performance Liquid Chromatograph equipped with Photodiode Array and Fluorescence Detectors (HPLC/PDA/FLR)
  • PAHs
  • Cannabinoids
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Natural products
  • Food analysis
Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometer, Thermo Fisher-Nicolet iN10, with Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) plate with various on-board IR libraries
  • Microplastics
  • Polymers
  • Fibers
  • Coatings
  • Material identification
Genevac EZ-2 Automated Evaporator
  • Extract concentration
  • Solvent removal
  • Sample drying