Chromatographic assays

In September 2013 KAIN started with the development of a completely new reference soil laboratory for a client. The project began with just a “plan”, there was nothing; no instruments, no personnel, no developed and validated methods and no laboratory. In January 2015, 16 months later, the project ended with the delivery of a fully operational laboratory were soil sample characteristics are routinely determined by more than 10 newly developed and fully validated methods. Read more »

A client wants to know which substances yield antibiological activity in some hay samples. The assignment fits within KAIN's service "What is the composition of my product or the product from my competitor". Therefore, KAIN decided to accept the assignment, but because of its complexity and the limited budget, on a "no cure, no pay" basis.
 

It soon turns out that the assignment is to difficult and can't be finalised within the available budget, because:  Read more »

In April 2012 KAIN started a major project for a pesticide laboratory in Kenya. The project was conducted under the "Provide Solutions To Emerging Analytical Laboratories" or PASTEL strategy. Objective was to provide a working analytical LC-MS/MS system for the analysis of pesticides in various matrices operated by thoroughly trained local personnel.

The project consisted of the following phases: Read more »