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  • Data Integrity Matters | Why is Data Integrity Important?

    Behind analytical data are humans – with pressures, emotional and personal needs to provide the best possible data for the biggest impact, personal pride, or simply a desire to make their lives easier. Do human or cultural factors affect scientists in regulated laboratories or operators in manufacturing areas?

  • Data Integrity Matters | Introduction

    It’s not just about compliance any more. You’ve seen it in the headlines: 79% of Warning Letters issued by the FDA cite data integrity issues in 2016 (up from just 26% in 2013). But what does this actually mean? Where do these figures come from? Isn’t this just in India or China? What was traditionally…

  • Analytical Chemists Are Going Extinct?

    Endangered analytical chemists face myriad obstacles today – lower than average job forecasts 1, costly and timely training, demand for more versatile knowledge, tighter regulations, and massive data management requirements. Perhaps most significantly, mass spectrometry market forecasts predict a lack of skilled users as a key market constraint2. Senior analytical chemists are presented with a…