SIFT-MS: A New Tool for Impurity Profiling in Pharmaceutical Products

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11 April 2017

Supported by:

11 April 2017

SIFT-MS is a new tool for real-time, selective and economical trace gas and headspace analysis. SIFT-MS uses soft chemical ionisation to quantify volatile compounds, including chromatographically challenging ones such as formaldehyde, formic acid, and ammonia.

Direct, broad-spectrum analysis using SIFT-MS provides new opportunities across multiple pharma applications, including:

• Simple formaldehyde analysis
• Residual solvent analysis
• Packaging screening, including residual monomer analysis.

Keynote speakers

Vaughan Langford, Director of Applications & Marketing, Syft Technologies

Vaughan completed his PhD in physical chemistry at the University of Canterbury in 1997 and joined Syft in 2002. He leads Syft Technologies’ applications and marketing departments. In this webinar, he introduced the SIFT-MS analytical technique and its key benefits for the pharmaceutical industry.

Benefits he outlined included:

• High throughput and continuous analysis of VOCs and inorganic gases
• High sensitivity
• Selective and comprehensive analysis
• High immunity to moisture

Mark Perkins, Senior Applications Chemist, Anatune

Mark graduated from the University of Southampton with a PhD in electrochemistry. He was a senior analyst at the Malaysian Rubber Board’s UK research centre, before joining Anatune in 2015. He introduced SIFT-MS applications that both simplify testing and improve productivity based on the rapid, direct analysis provided by SIFT-MS.

Applications he introduced included:

• Simple formaldehyde analysis
• Residual solvent analysis
• Packaging screening
• Rapid analysis of volatile extractables and leachables

Supported by Syft Technologies

Syft Technologies are the world leading providers of SIFT-MS Solutions, which are revolutionising the trace analysis world. This ground breaking technique emerged out of investigations of ion chemistry in the Earth’s atmosphere, and other planetary atmospheres, and was developed further at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. In 2002, Syft Technologies was formed, providing sufficient funding to take this academic research into a fully developed commercial solution.
Find out more: www.syft.com