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  • Waters Employee Jenn Glabicky is Delivering Benefit in the Fight Against COVID-19

    April 20th was just another Monday for most. In Massachusetts, it was Patriots’ Day which is a local holiday commemorating the early battles of the American Revolutionary War and when many schools and banks are closed in observance. But, for thousands around the world, it was the day they were supposed to run in the world-famous Boston Marathon….

  • In the Fight against COVID-19, Science is Surging!

    This blog was originally posted on LinkedIn From the very beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, we knew our customers would need an unprecedented amount of scientific and technical support. That is why we quickly created a “COVID-19 Innovation Response Team” to bring Waters’ industry-leading expertise to the forefront of the global scientific surge to quickly and effectively…

  • Data Integrity Matters: Unknown, Unintegrated or Undetected Chromatography Peaks

    In an earlier blog, I discussed the concerns about extraneous peaks that might appear in LC separations. While there can be many sources for peaks unrelated to the test substances, how do you decide which are legitimate, and which are an indication of poor quality? Which are harmless and which are dangerous? Which are expected…

  • Waters Opens New Swedish Head Office and Open Access Laboratory

    On October 2, 2019, Waters proudly opened our new Swedish head office and laboratory in the House of Innovations, located in the center of Campus Solna next to Karolinska Institutet. The new facility features an open access laboratory designed to provide students, scientists and startup companies with an experienced technical staff and easy-to-use automation infrastructure…

  • Data Integrity Matters: Limiting Access to Tools That Could Be Used to Manipulate Data (Part 4)

    Suppressing Peak Integration Being able to optimize peak integration and identification, whether by resetting the method RT settings, manually identifying peaks or suppressing integration of specific known peaks are certainly tools which, in the wrong hands, with the wrong intent and without a robust training and review process, may be used by unscrupulous staff to…

  • Data Integrity Matters | Unjustified Invalidation of Orphan Data

    Orphan data may exist for any number of scientific or operational reasons, but in today’s environment – until the regulators trust the companies again – each piece of orphan data is suspect and may contain evidence of data tampering. So can you delete it?

  • Data Integrity Matters | The Human Factors

    3 signs that you need to create a culture of compliance As mentioned in my first post on data integrity, people trust that companies create safe, quality products and rely on data to support that belief. But most product data, especially laboratory testing, should be designed to catch studies, batches, or test samples that fail…