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PFAS SamplePrep seminar Tuesday 18 November 2025

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PFAS: a problem and an opportunity for the laboratory

There is no getting around it: PFAS is recognised worldwide as a major environmental problem.

However, this also presents an opportunity for laboratories — an opportunity to contribute to mapping PFAS in soil, water and food and thus play a valuable role in protecting the environment and public health.

Determining PFAS is challenging: extremely low concentrations, high risk of contamination and a need for reliable, reproducible results.

A good analysis starts with good sample preparation — without that foundation, even the best analysis method loses its value.

Why attend this seminar

Do you spend too much time on PFAS (soil) extraction and repeat the same manual steps every day?

Then this seminar is for you.

Discover a fully automated PFAS extraction workflow with the ePrep® ONE and Advion-Interchim SPE-LV6.

During this seminar, we will show you how to:

  • minimise manual operations
  • significantly increase the throughput of your analyses
  • and still achieve low quantification limits (e.g. 0.02 µg/kg for soil).

And in the afternoon, you can experience the technologies for yourself during practical hands-on demonstrations of the ePrep® ONE, SPE systems and additional sample prep tools.

This will allow you to see in practice how automation works — from extraction to clean-up — and what this can mean for your own workflow.

In short: in just one day, you will discover how you can make your PFAS sample preparation faster, cleaner and more reliable with modern, integrated solutions.

Our contribution

Instrument Solutions is organising this day together with experts from Advion Interchim, ePrep Europe and Salm en Kipp.

We are pooling our knowledge to demonstrate how SPE and µSPE can be efficiently combined into a complete and automated workflow – from extraction to analysis.

In addition, cryogenic grinding and microwave sample preparation will be briefly explained as complementary techniques for optimally preparing samples for PFAS determination.

Program
TimeSubject
09:30 – 09:50a.m.Welcome
09:50 – 10:00a.m.opening by Jan Volkers, Product Manager Instrument Solutions
10:00 – 10:30a.m.‘SPE clean-up for water, from µL up to 1L’, by Alice Ryckebush, Product Manager Advion Interchim
10:30 – 11:00a.m.‘Automation of clean-up water, soil and fruit samples as SamplePrep for µSPE’, by Dr Cassandra Rusher, Senior European Technical Support Specialist ePrep Europe
11:00 – 11:15a.m.break
11:15 – 11:35a.m.‘Application example: SPE clean-up for water’ by Jan Volkers, Product Manager Instrument Solutions
11:35 – 11:50a.m.‘Sample extraction for clean-up, using MicroWave technology’ by Maarten Schouffoer, Product Specialist, SALM EN KIPP
11:50 – 12:05a.m.‘Cryogenic grinding of samples using Freezer/Mill® and/or Cryo-Blade™’, by Jeroen van Boxtel, Product Specialist, Instrument Solutions
12:05 – 12:45p.m.lunch
12:45 – 15:00a.m.Hands on demonstrations: ePrep, SPE, MicroWave and Freezer Mill/CryoBlade

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Instrument Solutions at the LABNL 2025 exhibition

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From September 23 to 25, 2025, the LABNL laboratory exhibition will be held at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. During these days, the latest technologies, solutions, and tools for the laboratory will be presented.

LabNL Escape Room

On Wednesday, September 24, there will be a real Escape Room at LabNL. In the Biosecurity Escape Room, teams of up to six players will compete to be the first to unravel the biosecurity mystery. Participants will be confronted with a realistic laboratory scenario and will have to work together to contain a potential threat. Can you communicate effectively, apply the right safety measures, and use your analytical skills to find the right solution within the time limit? More information.

Would you like to experience what LABNL has to offer for yourself? Then head to Hall 10, where you can meet Instrument Solutions and its sister company SALM & KIPP. The stand number is 10C006. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge and network!

What can you expect at our booth?

 

Sample preparation

 

  • The CG-900 Cryo-Blade™ cryogenic grinder from Cole Parmer has a large capacity for grinding and processing sample material up to 1 kg. Thanks to the homogeneous grinding of the sample, only 1 g is needed as a representative test sample from a ground batch of 1 kg. Read more.

This Cryo-Blade is a great addition to the successful Freezer Mill, which grinds samples up to 200 grams.

  • New SNRG digestion block – This system is particularly suitable for digesting your samples with hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, aqua regia, and hydrofluoric acid(*).

 

ICP Analysis

 

  • Inorganic Ventures – top quality inorganic standards, both stock and custom-made standards. New are ready-to-use reagents for the Discrete Analyzer (100% satisfaction guarantee).
  • Glass Expansion – top accessories and consumables for your ICP-OES and/or ICP-MS.

 

Chromatography

 

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Visit Instrument Solutions at WoTS 2024

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The World of Technology & Science trade fair will open its doors! To be precise, the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht will host the WoTS trade fair from Tuesday 24 to Friday 27 September 2024.

Together with sister organisation SALM AND KIPP, we will present ourselves as an exhibitor with a stand. You are welcome to visit our stand in hall 7, stand B046!

Click here for your free ticket!

What we show you:

      • ICP-OES and ICP-MS standards from Inorganic Ventures
      • Sample introduction systems for ICP-OES and ICP-MS from Glass Expansion
      • Katanax X-300 Fusion Fluxer from Environmental Express – for accessing samples for XRF and/or ICP analysis
      • New! SNRG Block™ System for Digestion (open digestion) from Analytichem (formerly SCP Science) – for open digestion.
        heating block for digesting 48 DigiTUBEs of 50mL at a time as sample preparation for your ICP analysis. The temperature course of the digestion is recorded in the specially developed Go2Temp software.
      • GPC set from Knauer – The AZURA® SEC provides solutions for the analysis, separation and fractionation of sample components based on size and molecular weight. This system is useful for industries such as polymer, food, biochemistry, pharmaceuticals and research.
      • New! Nanoscaler from Knauer – The IJM NanoScaler system is designed for laboratory-scale formulation of lipid nanoparticles. It allows scientists to optimize process parameters for formulating API-containing lipid nanoparticles.
      • puriFlash 5,250 from Advion Interchim Scientific – This system enables rapid purification with normal or reverse phase chromatography, collecting fractions by mass. Ensuring safety and accuracy, the system confirms the mass and purity of collected fractions using UV/VIS, ELSD or in combination with MS.
      • New! SPE-LV6 from Advion Interchim Scientific – a compact, automatic system for sample preparation by solid-phase extraction. It makes the process more reliable and safer, and is ideal for analytical chemists seeking automatic solutions instead of manual work.
      • Freezer Mill and Cryo-Blade™ by Cole Parmer-Especially for grinding/pulping difficult to grind and tough samples!
      • Heracles E-Nose – This instrument is both electronic nose and Ultra Fast gas chromatograph and makes an overall odor profile and chemical composition analysis in one run.
      • New! Polarimeter P8000 from Krüss Optronic
      • New! Vasco Kin from Cordouan – NanoParticle Characterization system for remote, in-situ DLS measurements in any transparent container via an Optic Fibre. With interchangeable external accessories for concentrated suspension (DTC) measurements and In-Line Millifluidic measurements under Continuous Flow.

Our team of product specialists is ready to explore if our solutions fit your needs!

Instrument Solutions at LABNL 2023 trade show

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On 26, 27 and 28 September 2023, the laboratory trade show LABNL will take place at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. Here you will find the latest technologies, solutions and tools for the laboratory.

A rock-solid conference programme covers topics of interest to every lab worker. Think lab optimisation, detection and separation techniques and innovations in life sciences. Renowned Prof Erik Scherder will give the Key note presentation on the opening day.

Meet Instrument Solutions and its sister company SALM & KIPP on the exhibition floor in Hall 7, stand number is 7B007.

 

  • What can you expect at our stand?

    Sample pre-preparation

  • Scoop! Cryo-Blade™ – The new Cole-Parmer CG-900 Cryo-Blade™ cryogenic grinder has an ultra-high capacity for grinding and processing sample material of up to 1 kg. Thanks to the homogeneous grinding of the sample, only 1g is needed as a representative test sample of a 1kg ground batch. read more.This Cryo-Blade is a great addition to the successful Freezer Mill, which grinds samples up to 200g.
  • DigiPREP heating block – This system is particularly suitable for unlocking your samples with hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, aqua regia and hydrofluoric acid(*).

ICP Analysis

  • Inorganic Ventures – top quality inorganic standards, both stock and custom-made standards. New are ready-to-use reagents for the Discrete Analyzer (100% satisfaction guarantee).
  • Glass Expansion – top accessories and consumables for your ICP-OES and/or ICP-MS

Chromatography

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