Thermo Scientific VetDrugs Explorer Collection

Food scientists can now take advantage of a start-to-finish solution that offers robust and sensitive analysis of multiresidue veterinary drugs in complex animal-derived sample matrices, helping identify animal and dairy products that may be unsafe for human consumption.

The Thermo Scientific VetDrugs Explorer Collection is a single-provider, liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)-based solution that enables the quantitation required to meet current regulatory standards of more than 160 veterinary drugs in analytically challenging sample matrices. It provides users with a single, pre-tested, all-encompassing solution for the robust and productive testing of animal and dairy products for multiresidue veterinary drugs, operating at a rapid pace while avoiding the challenges associated with setting up a similar workflow independently.

The comprehensive collection includes: the QuEChERS (Quick Easy Cheap Effective Rugged Safe) kit for simple and reproducible sample preparation; an HPLC column with chemistry specific for the detection of veterinary drugs; robust and high-throughput LC-MS/MS for uptime; a triple quadrupole mass spectrometer for fast and sensitive quantitation of analytes in a variety of matrices; and an extensive built-in compound database for the screening, quantifying and reporting of samples.

The collection is designed to help limit the aberrant use of veterinary drugs in agriculture, including antibiotics, β-agonists and steroids, by supplying food safety laboratories, government agencies and contract organisations with a solution that can help them monitor, detect and report these drugs to appropriate authorities in a robust and productive manner.