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Medical News | Medical Articles: A Portable Solution for the On-scene Identification of Kratom

	July 26, 2019
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A Portable Solution for the On-scene Identification of Kratom

In this interview, Zachary Lawton explains the health risks of Kratom and the development of a portable GC-MS solution for the identification of Kratom and other drugs that cannot be identified using traditional colorimetric tests. This interview was conducted at Pittcon 2019.

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			Separating Flavinoids from Plasma Proteins using UHPLC-MS Scientists have described a method to separate and characterize flavonoids by digesting plasma proteins with protease enzymes and performing UHPLC-MS.

			Metabolomic Profiling of an Ancient Herbal Medicine using UHPLC Researchers have used UHPLC to elucidate the medicinal effects of Baccharis grisebachii, an ancient herbal medicine used in Argentina.

	A Breathalyzer for Cannabinoids? Just as alcohol is measured using a breathalyzer, law enforcement officers also want to measure the levels of cannabinoids in the breath. However, the concentration of cannabinoids in the breath is very low. One solution is the use of LC-MS/MS to quantify cannabinoids in breath samples.

	How Much CBD and THC Enters the Bloodstream? In this study, the concentration of CBD and THC in blood plasma samples was determined using UHPLC-MS/MS. The assay could detect as low as 0.5ng/mL concentrations of CBD and THC, thus providing a method to determine the safety of cannabinoid-containing products.

	Combating Counterfeit Green Tea with Metabolomic Profiling Scientists have shown that not all green tea is equal and have devised a method to infer the geographic origin of consumer green tea products.