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ITSP (Instrument Top Sample Prep) is a consumable device for solid phase extraction, or for filtration, designed to enable a 3-axis autoloader to automatically prepare samples on a standard analytical instrument workstation.
Who should consider using ITSP?
Analytical chemistry laboratories in academic institutions, government, and industry operating in the following fields:
1) Pharmaceutical (for drug discovery and development)
2) Forensics/Toxicology (for analyzing physical evidence)
3) Clinical (for analyzing patient samples)
4) Environmental (for analyzing field samples)
5) Industrial (for QA/QC)
a. Food & Beverage
b. Petrochemical
c. Cosmetics
d. Consumer Goods
6) Contract Laboratory (for any of the above)
When should a lab consider using ITSP?
When, as part of your sample analysis, you commonly:
1) Selectively extract a compound of interest from a sample matrix using Solid Phase Extraction, or
2) Concentrate a sample using Solid Phase Extraction, or
3) Remove particulates from a sample using Filtration, or
4) Remove inorganic salts from a sample by passing through a nonpolar sorbent.
Where should a lab consider using ITSP?
On an analytical instrument workstation (e.g. LC, GC, MS) having a CTC Analytics or LEAP PAL (or similar 3-axis autoloader), e.g., CTC GC PAL CTC HTC PAL CTC HTS PAL CTC HTX PAL CTC IFC PAL Prep CTC IFC PAL Analytical CTC Combi PAL CTC Combi Headspace PAL
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Why should a lab consider using ITSP?
1) To reduce capital equipment costs
2) To reduce cost of consumables
3) To reduce cost of solvents
4) To reduce cost of solvent disposal
5) To increase quality of results
6) To reduce labor costs
7) To increase lab production
To reduce risk of cross-over
9) To reduce errors
10) To improve chain-of-custody verification
How does ITSP provide the benefits listed above?
1. Since ITSP is designed to operate on (often) pre-existing, relatively inexpensive, 3-axis autosamplers in the workstation, it eliminates the requirement to acquire more expensive equipment in order to automate sample preparation.
2. ITSP reduces the cost of consumables by:
a. Reducing the quantity of glass vials , inserts, caps, and micro-plates needed to perform sample preparation, and
b. Requiring less sorbent material per sample by facilitating the scaling down of method volumes.
3. ITSP reduces the cost of solvents by facilitating the scaling down of method volumes.
4. ITSP reduces the cost of solvent disposal by facilitating the scaling down of method volumes.
5. ITSP increases the quality of lab results since it enables the automation of sample preparation methods, which reduces sample-to-sample variation compared to manual processing.
6. ITSP reduces labor costs by facilitating the automation of sample preparation, which:
a. Allows the autoloader to perform many of the tasks formerly performed by lab technicians, freeing up their time for other tasks, and
b. Allows for delegation of tasks to less skilled, and therefore less costly, technicians.
7. ITSP increases lab production by enabling the autosampler to prepare the next sample while the previous sample is being analyzed by the analytical instrument(s), thereby reducing dead-time of the autoloader.
8. Since the ITSP device is a single-use consumable, the opportunity for cross-over between samples is reduced, compared to applications utilizing re-usable devices.
9. ITSP reduces errors since an inherent benefit of automating any process is the reduction of potential for human error.
10. ITSP improves the verification of chain-of-custody in evidentiary sample processing because, once a method is properly automated and validated, the sample preparation and handling can be documented through automated performance re
