Using the Thermo Scientific™ Orbitrap™ GC-MS systems for the analysis of pesticides and other food and environmental contaminants has unique advantages over alternative techniques. This technology allows analytical chemists to achieve comparable sensitivity, selectivity and dynamic range performance to GC triple quadrupole technology using an untargeted full-scan acquisition, enabling:

The targeting of an unlimited number of analytes down to triple quadrupole level detection limits

Identification of unknowns driven by spectral matching and sub-ppm mass accuracies

Retrospective screening of compounds not known to be of interest at time of acquisition