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News The Column www.thecolumn.eu.com May 2006 NewsCentre of excellence opens for the life sciences STARLIMS solutions to suit the A centre of excellence COE will be needs of life science organizations opened by STARLIMS, a global while providing industry-specific provider of laboratory information support for the company's global management systems LIMS . The professional service specialists. COE is a part of the company's Other organizations served by the wholly owned subsidiary in Canada. company are in the forensic, This centre will serve the chemical, food and beverage, company's client base in the environmental and petrochemical pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industries. The company recently medical device and contract released its STARLIMS version 10 at research organization CRO Pittcon 2006, which is an entirely industries from all over the world. web-based off-the-shelf LIMS. Over 30 professionals with expertise For more information visit the company's website at in the life science information management solutions will be www.starlims.com. brought together. The aim of the centre is to optimize Thermo partners Full-replacement guarantee with CAMO and Chemical Analysis, In a strategic collaboration agreement, Thermo Electron and Agilent Technologies has May Van, stated, This CAMO will promote compatibility between RESULT software introduced a programme programme shows how and The Unscrambler software, which are available from the that will replace confident we are in the respective companies. Under the terms of the agreement analytical instruments quality of our products Thermo will offer The Unscrambler suite of products as a that cannot be repaired if and services and how software option with its Antaris range of near infrared NIR covered by any Agilent important customer analysers and will also join CAMO's scientific board of service agreement. The satisfaction is to us. advisors, which helps plan upcoming development activities. Agilent Services Initially, key managers The enhanced compatibility between the two companies' Guarantee programme and technical experts products enables RESULT to automatically integrate existing follows the formal address the issue. If the Unscrambler methods reportedly bringing together the most escalation process issue still isn't resolved to powerful NIR analysers with the most efficient modelling performed by the the customer's software available for NIR applications. company to rectify any satisfaction, the Method developers and NIR experts in the food and analytical hardware issue instrument is replaced at pharmaceutical industries will find this combination of that cannot be resolved no charge. technologies useful. They can perform modeling and with the first repair For more information calibrations implemented in real-time routines in a single attempt. visit the company's analytical package, hence the need for data conversion or The vice-president and website at rebuilding methods in different software will be eliminated. general manager of www.agilent.com For more information about the compatibility between Laboratory Services these two products visit www.thermo.com/nir. Solutions, Life Sciences Links: www.starlims.com www.agilent.com www.thermo.com/nir 6 http://www.thecolumn.eu.com http://www.starlims.com http://www.agilent.com http://www.thermo.com/nir http://www.starlims.com http://www.agilent.com http://www.thermo.com/nir

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of The Column - May 2006

Contents
Opinion
Market Trends & Analysis
Meeting Focus
Furan in Food
Chip For Chromatography
Q&A

The Column - May 2006