In recent years, liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (LC-MS) has become a widely used analytical method for various homeland security applications. LC-MS provides the ability to detect trace levels of illicit materials in crime scenes and geographical warzones, which is critical to prevent the spread of criminal activities, terrorism and smuggling.
As the use of dangerous substances increases worldwide, the security agencies charged with responding to these new and emerging threats need the support of robust and reliable analytical instrumentation for this task. Whether dealing with unknown powders or liquids, explosive materials or other prohibited substances, forensic laboratories require comprehensive testing capabilities to detect and identify trace amounts of these materials reliably and with confidence.
SCIEX offers innovative LC-MS/MS systems tailored to your crime scene forensic investigations and homeland security applications. Our systems provide best-in-class solutions that meet your requirements to screen, quantify, identify and confirm the presence of illicit materials for a variety of applications.
Confidently screen for explosive compounds using flexible, high-throughput and sensitive LC-MS/MS solutions capable of detecting trace levels of explosive materials. Learn how SCIEX systems can help you reliably detect explosives and their residues.
Fast and sensitive detection of explosives and their residues is essential to confirm the use of explosive materials in a crime scene. Here, a robust and comprehensive workflow that uses the X500R QTOF system from SCIEX enabled the confident identification and accurate quantitation of explosives and residues commonly encountered in soil samples.
Throughput and selectivity are key when it comes to analyzing explosive compounds. This technical note explains how a specific and sensitive workflow for analyzing the most common organic explosives can be used with the X500R QTOF system from SCIEX to enable confident compound identification of trace amounts of explosive residues.
Developing a rapid and sensitive method for the detection of explosives is vital to accurately measure them at trace levels in soil samples. In this technical note, a simple sample preparation procedure is combined with an optimized LC-MS/MS method using the SCIEX Triple Quad 3500 system to enable detection of pg/g levels of organic explosives in soil samples.
LC-MS/MS helps forensic investigators identify and characterize unknown drugs with confidence by enabling comprehensive MS/MS spectral fragment information on every detectable component in a sample. Learn how LC-MS/MS platforms from SCIEX provide best-in-class solutions for fast and accurate identification of seized drug samples.
Rapid and reliable identification of the drugs that make up seized materials is crucial for forensic investigators. The combination of ultra-fast LC separation with data-independent acquisition (DIA) using SWATH DIA enables confident identification of novel synthetic opioids in seized drug samples.
Easy to use accurate mass spectrometer system that analyzes data faster, leveraging the power of SWATH acquisition.
Combine QTRAP technology with MRM sensitivity of a SCIEX Triple Quad system to get you even better identification, characterization and quantitation
The all-in-one software that lets you acquire, process and analyze data, and even generate reports.