Landmark Sale of Mass Spectrometer

AB Sciex has announced that it has presented The Manfred Donike Institute (MDI) for Doping Analysis e.V, one of the two World Anti-Doping Agencycertified labs in Germany, with the 100th AB Sciex 5500 mass spectrometry system sold in Germany. The wide adoption of this technology within Germany and across Europe in its first two years demonstrates that this technology is meeting the needs of scientists for high sensitivity and selectivity to push the limits of analytical science. With 100 units sold within the first two years of launch, the AB Sciex 5500 series of mass spectrometers is becoming the technology standard in leading laboratories across Europe.

During the celebration in Cologne, the AB Sciex QTRAP® 5500 System was presented to Professor Dr Wilhelm Schänzer, the Director of the MDI. He said: "The AB Sciex QTRAP 5500 system will be the latest addition to our suite of mass spectrometry instruments as it complies with our demands for fast electronics, superior robustness and high sensitivity. We believe that the additional QTRAP system will further optimise our workflow with simplified sample preparation, shorter analysis times and greater sensitivity." The Manfred Donike Institute works together with the German Sport University Cologne’s Institute of Biochemistry on doping control in human and horse racing. Fundamental study topics include the analysis of athlete development and improvement of doping control procedures. Due to the specific requirements associated with doping analysis, it is important that biological samples, such as blood or urine, are analysed in a highly sensitive and selective manner. It is vital that substances used for doping can be reliably identified in the lowest concentrations possible. MDI uses mass spectrometric techniques to meet these high standards and use LC/MS/MS analytical instruments to identify most doping substances.