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DEVELOPMENT OF AN ELECTROSPRAY LC/MS LIBRARY IDENTIFICATION PROTOCOL FOR THE SCREENING OF ORGANIC CONTAMINANTS IN DRINKING WATER

Impact/Purpose:

The development of an LC/MS electrospray spectral library to allow chemist to identify organic contaminants in drinking water

Description:

A significant number (80%) of organic contaminants that represent health risks in drinking water are better suited to screening by LC/MS rather than GC/MS analysis. We report progress with the draft Library System Protocol 1.1 from a round robin of private, state and federal laboratories to develop a fragmentation based electrospray mass spectrometric library analogous to the NIST GC/MS capability.

Record Details:

Record Type:PROJECT
Projected Completion Date:12/31/2006
OMB Category:Other
Record ID: 155988