Analytical applications by sector
Food safety, environment, clinical and toxicology, pharma and biopharma: the analytical challenge and the DaSP approach, sector by sector.
Stage 1 · Analyze
LC-MS applications and methods for the accredited laboratory
The right instrument, a method that stands up to audit, support for the instrument’s whole life cycle.
X500R QTOF system in an analytical laboratory
Analyze is the stage where DaSP started in 2011, as SCIEX’s official channel partner, the first in Italy. Identifying the right instrument, configuring it, building the method and optimizing it, with technical and application support for the instrument’s whole life cycle.
The result that counts is an instrument that performs every day and a method that stands up to audit.
- SCIEX official channel partner since 2011, the first in Italy
- 340 mass spectrometers under scientific support
- 457 analytical methods developed in Italian laboratories
- 229 feasibility studies
The applications, by sector
Every sector has its matrices, its analytes and its standards. DaSP works by application, not by instrument: first the analytical question, then the technology that answers it.
- Food safety: complex matrices, legal limits, methods to validate and maintain.
- Environment: water, soil and contaminants to be determined at ever lower concentrations.
- Clinical and toxicology: biological samples, turnaround times, ISO 15189 requirements.
- Pharma and biopharma: characterization, impurities, documentation that stands up to inspection.
The technologies we use
- Triple quadrupole systemsTargeted quantitation in complex matrices: residues, contaminants, drugs, hormones.
- QTRAP systemsTriple quadrupole with linear ion trap: confirmation and quantitation in the same method.
- QTOF and high-resolution systemsScreening of unknowns, characterization, accurate-mass confirmation.
- Echo MS+Sample introduction without chromatography, for high-throughput analysis.
- LC systemsExionLC liquid chromatography, from routine methods to microflow.
- SoftwareSCIEX OS for acquisition and processing; instrument status monitoring software.
XIC · MRM
Pages in this stage
Analytical methods
Feasibility studies, optimization, development and validation according to ISO/IEC 17025: protocol, validation dossier, method transfer.
Support and engineering
Technical and application support for the instrument’s whole life cycle, maintenance, laboratory engineering and automation.
The questions we get asked
Why not buy directly from the manufacturer?
Because the instrument is the beginning, not the end. DaSP stays alongside the laboratory for the instrument’s whole life cycle: the method is built and transferred, people are trained, and there is a single point of contact for instrument, method and support.
Do you develop the method, or do we?
Together. DaSP builds the method with the laboratory, documents it and transfers it to the people who will use it. Internal validation remains the laboratory’s: DaSP prepares it, it does not replace it.
A method stands up to audit when the quality system holds too. For accreditation and training, there is the Grow stage.
Laboratory internal audit
Not sure where to start? The laboratory internal audit gives you the audit report and the process map. It is worth €600: for the time being we offer it free of charge.