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AB Sciex Pte. Ltd.

Main landing page for cannabis testing: https://sciex.com/applications/food-and-beverage-testing/cannabis-testing

Commonly known as Sciex, AB Sciex Pte. Ltd. develops "solutions in mass spectrometry paired with capillary electrophoresis and liquid chromatography."[1] The company markets some of its solutions for cannabis lab testing, including[2]:

  • potency testing
  • mycotoxin testing
  • pesticide testing
  • terpenes testing

Instruments and methods

Triple Quad systems

Sciex offers four different Triple Quad systems for tandem mass spectrometry paired with liquid chromatography (LC-MS/MS): the 6500+, 5500, 4500, and 3500. The company claims that with these systems "scientists can acquire multiple reaction monitoring (MRM), precursor, neutral loss, and product ion scans to develop powerful methods for complex matrices, all while maintaining reproducibility and robustness."[3]

QTRAP systems

Sciex also offers three different Triple Quad Linear Ion Traps (QTRAP) systems for LC-MS/MS: the 6500+, 5500, and 4500. The company states that these are similar to the Triple Quad systems "but with enhanced scan functions to enable simultaneous quantitation and confirmation."[4]

vMethod for Cannabis

Sciex also offers a "vMethod," a quantitation method for pesticide and cannabinoid analysis, that works on many of their LC-MS/MS systems.[5]

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

Main landing page for cannabis testing: https://www.agilent.com/en/promotions/cannabis

Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an instrument and software development company for the life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical industries. The company offers a variety of chromatography and spectrometry instruments (using a wide array of techniques) and software for the cannabis testing industry, including[6]:

  • potency and efficacy testing
  • heavy metals testing
  • pesticide testing
  • residual solvents testing
  • terpenes testing

Instruments and methods

The company suggests instrument options based on what type of testing will occur.[6]

Potency and efficacy testing

Heavy metals testing

  • 5110 ICP-OES Instrument: an inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) instrument with synchronous radial and axial measurement
  • 7800 ICP-MS: an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) instrument
  • 7900 ICP-MS: an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) instrument with higher matrix tolerance, wider dynamic range, and better signal-to-noise ratio
  • 8900 Triple Quadrupole ICP-MS: an inductively coupled plasma normal and tandem mass spectroscopy instrument with triple quadrupole

Pesticide testing

Residual solvents testing

Terpenes

Software

  • ICP Expert Software for ICP-OES: inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) software for data analysis
  • MassHunter: mass spectrometry software for instrument control, monitoring, and data analysis
  • MicroLab: fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy software for quantitative method development, calibrations, and data analysis

References