2014/08
Welcome to the August issue of EVISA's Speciation Newsletter.

This month's news are headed by press releases from instrument manufacturers. The Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) is one of the major detection techniques for speciation analysis (see our chapters on Tools for Speciation Analysis). Bruker announce three weeks ago that the company is looking to sell off its ICP-MS business, because the Chemical & Applied Markets (CAM) division, which houses this and other products, has generated significant losses for the last four years, with little prospect of near-term profitability (see the News below).

This week Analytik Jena (AJ) announced that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire the ICP-MS business of Bruker Corporation. Recently (at the Analytica in Munich in April this year) had entered the Plasma Spectrometry market by introducing its PQ 9000 High-Resolution Array ICP-OES. With the acquisition of the ICP-MS business from Bruker, AJ expects to close an important technological gap and will be in position to offer their customers a much broader portfolio of elemental spectrometry systems (see the News below).

For most of you, holidays are now over and important events are ahead (see the agenda of events).
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NEWS

EVISA is keeping you updated  with what is going on in speciation analysis. In this section you will find news about the most current research results, about trends, legal issues and informations from manufacturers in the field of speciation analysis.

With all the links to further information and publications the News archive is a valuable collection of "hot topics" in speciation analysis. We continuously update even former news with new links and information so that all news are actual all the time.

Analytik Jena AG Signs Agreement to Acquire Bruker’s ICP-MS Business
Analytik Jena AG, a leading manufacturer of analytical measuring technology, life science instruments and optoelectronics, yesterday announced that it has signed a binding agreement to acquire the ICP-MS business of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR).
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EU Commission consults on chromium VI in toys
Yesterday (August 4), the European Commission and its non-food Scientific Committee on Health and Environmental Risks (SCHER) launched a consultation on the preliminary opinion on chromium VI in toys.
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Instrument manufacturer Bruker to exit underperforming instrument lines
Bruker announced a few days ago (see the announcement dated July 23) the decision to reduce its Chemical & Applied Markets (CAM) Division product portfolio. As a result of this decision, Bruker will stop selling its stand-alone GC systems and its single-quadrupole (SQ) GC-SQ mass spectrometry systems.
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VACANCIES

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Universitat de Lleida (Catalonia, Spain) : Metal speciation
The thesis will continue the development of DGT (Diffusion Gradients in Thin Films) while comparing and improving other emerging analytical techniques (DMT, AGNES, etc.), to gain an understanding of the distribution of a metal ion in its chemical forms and the ensuing (bio)availability. Possible applications: environmental, toxicological and agrifood studies (from dissolution of nanoparticles in natural waters to the impact of metals on the quality of wine).
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U.S. FDA: FOOD SAFETY/CHEMISTRY RESEARCH
The Office of Regulatory Science of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition is seeking outstanding analytical or bioanalytical chemists with mass spectrometry expertise to participate in our food safety/food defense research program.
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DIRECTORY

EVISA's directory of scientist is a versatile tool to facilitate contact with scientists in the field of speciation and related sciences. The directory is fully searchable for names, addresses, research topics etc.  You should bookmark this directory as an always up-to-date address book. (In order to hinder SPAM robots for collecting the E-mail accounts, we hide them in a special format).

More than 280 active scientists in the field of speciation analysis already joined the directory. Join this great directory that is extensively linked to all type of other information on this site, such as homepages, conferences and literature.

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LINKS

EVISA provides an easy access to external information. Our database contains more than 2700 links to relevant information from numerous top scientific resources spread over the whole Web. The database is searchable both via full-text and categories such as elements, type of species and type of information. We are permanently updating our links section.

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