Pesticides – Multimedia

This episode discusses GCMS in environmental labs, the need for routine maintenance, and how Thermo Fisher's NeverVent technology streamlines maintenance, saving time and increasing sample processing capacity.

Scientists report that aloe peels, often discarded as agricultural waste, can ward off bugs, acting as a natural insecticide. They have identified several bioactive compounds in extracts from the peels that deter insects from feasting on crops.

Lucy Lawrence and Dr.Detlef Jensen, senior expert in applied markets at Thermo Fisher Scientific, will discuss Ion chromatography and how to keep drinking water safe in detail.

Johan Axelman from the Swedish Chemicals Agency, speaks about why we need a paradigm shift in the environmental risk assessment (ERA) of pesticides, what a future ERA may look like and how we can make it happen.

In this Teach me in 10 episode we are joined by Terri Christison to learn how to:
1. Keep our foods safe from harmful chemicals
2. Solve separation, detection and quantitation problems for highly polar cationic pesticides
3. Expand your horizons in the analytical sciences

The development of broad spectrum glyphosate and “Roundup Ready crops” was a game-changer that worked so well people basically stopped looking for new herbicides. That is until the weeds started fighting back.

Reactions is checking out the chemistry that makes vertical farms possible. There's a lot of science that goes on behind this agricultural trend.

There are raising concerns about the impact of pesticides on health and the environment. The EU-funded ChemPrime project offers a viable alternative. A new technology that, like a vaccine, prepares crops’ immune system enabling them to mount a faster and stronger immune response against future attack.

The sample preparation workflow for pesticide analysis can be accelerated through automation with possible on-line or off-line injection into the chromatographic system. The video focuses on the automated clean-up step of QuEChERS extracts through the microSPE technology using the Thermo Scientific™ TriPlus™ RSH or RSH SMART autosamplers.

Instead of pesticides, farmers may soon use pheromones to combat pests thanks to innovative approaches in production and distribution.