Developing countries

In July 2010 a one week hands-on training was given at the State Phytosanitary Laboratory in Skopje as part of a knowledge transfer programme instituted by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Read more »

In March 2010 a brief course of training was given to a group of analysts from a laboratory in Macedonia. This was the first phase of a knowledge transfer programme instituted by the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs for potential EEC members such as Macedonia. The title of the course was ‘Troubleshooting and method development in analytical chemistry’. Read more »

Commissioned by a large international non-profit research institute, we developed a GC-MS method for analysing DDT in soil samples. The customer wanted to measure the concentrations of each DDT, DDD and DDE isomer separately. This meant that a straightforward report on the total DDT content would not suffice. Read more »