Increase productivity, improve data confidence and simplify routine accurate mass workflows with the new ACQUITY RDa Detector.
Compact, compliance-ready and easy-to-use, this LC-MS system ensures your entire laboratory can easily access high resolution mass measurements to instantly start working smarter, not harder.
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High-quality data Identify analytes with speed using accurate, reproducible mass measurements, giving you confidence in your results day in, day out. |
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Informed decision-making Intelligent diagnostics monitor the system's health and if necessary, provide guidance on resolving any problems, reducing downtime and ensuring consistent results that accelerate decision-making. |
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Easy deployment
The intuitive interface and one-button start-up on this compliance-ready, compact system reduces training time in your laboratory. |
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Quick turnarounds
Immediate access to high resolution mass measurements reduces the need to outsource high resolution measurements, resulting in time, cost, and productivity efficiencies. |
Enhance your laboratory credentials, improve efficiency and increase productivity with a simple compliance-ready SmartMS solution. The ACQUITY RDa Detector, coupled with the ACQUITY UPLC I-Class PLUS with optional TUV or PDA detectors, is built for the waters_connect platform and uses small molecule workflows for informed, smart decision making.
Pharmaceuticals: Impurity Analysis and Degradation StudiesImpurity profiling of an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) is an essential part of drug development. To ensure the safety and quality of the API, it is critical to characterize the degradation pathways and the impact of storage conditions on the drug product. The SmartMS-enabled ACQUITY RDa Detector quickly generates high quality accurate mass datasets in busy and diverse labs, providing confidence in your data. |
Natural Product ScreeningNatural product isolates in a research setting require a streamlined screening workflow for rapid identification, while any commercially supplied natural products claiming therapeutic properties must adhere to rigorous characterization and quality control criteria enforced by regulatory agencies. The ACQUITY RDa Detector enables researchers and manufacturers to generate data with confidence to screen product isolates/extracts with great accuracy, or adhere to the regulatory standards for purity and contamination assessment of raw materials. This delivers rapid natural product analysis with integrated library searching functionality using simple, end-to-end workflows. |
Food & Environmental: Assessing Food IntegrityConsumers, more than ever before, are interested in how their food is grown, processed and brought to market. This continues to put demands not only on the regulators to protect consumers, but also on food business operators to maintain their brand reputation. The ACQUITY RDa Detector offers a powerful combination of high efficiency UPLC separations with SmartMS technology and intuitive software for data processing and review, enabling labs to screen sample extracts for possible contamination and/or fraud. |
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Hear from experts at Waters and Pharmaphysic about improving data confidence with the ACQUITY RDa Detector, the new compact SmartMS system for small molecule analysis.
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In this software overview, find out how you can easily access instrument control, data acquisition, review, and reporting for the ACQUITY RDa Detector through the UNIFI app in the waters_connect hub.
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