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Pesticide Analysis

Pesticides are used in commercial cannabis grow operations to kill insects and spiders that thrive on cannabis
plants. Pesticides are carcinogenic and mutagenic, causing serious harm to cannabis consumers, especially immuno-
compromised medicinal cannabis users. Shimadzu offers the most sensitive and comprehensive pesticide analysis
and confirmation available utilizing Liquid Chromatography-Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS).
While most pesticides are analyzed using Electro-Spray Ionization (ESI) with LC-MS/MS, many labs use atmospheric
pressure chemical ionization (APCI) for the difficult-to-analyze pesticides. For related applications, request
Shimadzu’s Application News No. SSI-LCMS 104 and SSI-LCMS 105.

Offering excellent sensitivity and throughput, the ultra-low detection limits provided by Shimadzu LC-MS/MS make
this technique ideal for the analysis of pesticides commonly employed during cannabis cultivation.
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High-sensitivity LC-MS/MS analysis of 211 pesticides in cannabis dry product in less than 12 minutes using a
Shimadzu LCMS-8060 triple quadruple mass spectrometer

LCMS-8060 Triple Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer

Because the pesticide list varies from state to state and country to country, and is subject
to change, the addition of a GC-MS/MS may be required for complete pesticide analysis.
Choose the triple quadrupole GCMS-TQ8050 NX with AOC-20i or AOC-6000 for volatile
pesticides, pesticides that are difficult to analyze by electrospray ionization (ESI), and other
problematic pesticides that are difficult to analyze by LC-MS/MS. The GCMS-TQ8050 NX,
with the proper configuration, can also be used for terpene profiling (page 8) and residual
solvents analysis (page 11).

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