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Company updates, events, and application insights from the mass spectrometry world.
Why Steroid Testing Is Moving to Mass Spectrometry
Immunoassays have been the workhorse of steroid hormone testing for decades. But at low concentrations, and in the presence of look-alike molecules, they can give the wrong answer. Why laboratories are turning to LC-MS/MS, and why the shift is more nuanced than it first appears.
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From Drill Core to Data: What Critical Minerals Ask of the Trace Element Laboratory
Exploration in Australia now reaches well beyond gold, iron ore and base metals. Lithium, rare earths and other critical minerals bring new elements, lower concentrations and tougher sample matrices. What that means for how samples are dissolved, measured and checked.
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Blood by Post: How Microsampling Is Changing Where Samples Come From
A few drops of blood from a finger-prick, dried and posted to the lab. Microsampling removes the need for a collection centre, and for a country the size of Australia that matters. What it opens up, and what it asks of the laboratory.
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Our First Insight TQ9000 LC-MS/MS in Australia: What Two Days of Lab Demonstrations Told Us About the ANZ Market
Reliable Australasia has commissioned its first Insight TQ9000 LC-MS/MS in Australia. Two days of lab demonstrations revealed where ANZ suppliers are falling short.
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Reliable Australasia at foodpro 2026: The Portable GCMS Steals the Show
Reliable Australasia closes out four days at Australia's largest food manufacturing event, with the Portable GCMS drawing crowds and a pipeline of new industry and research connections.
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The Field vs Lab Problem: Why Sample Integrity Is One of Food Research's Biggest Blind Spots
For food researchers, the sample you collect in the field is rarely the sample you analyse in the lab. What that means for data quality, and what changes when GC-MS moves to the point of collection.
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Expanding What Is Possible in Food Research: How the Explorer 2000 portable GC-MS Is Changing the Way Studies Get Designed
For food science, agriculture and food safety researchers, the Explorer 2000 portable GC-MS removes the fixed-location constraint that has quietly shaped decades of study design. What becomes possible when the instrument can go to the sample.
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On stage with the academicians: Reliable recognised at China's 2026 Analytical Testing Frontier Forum
Our parent company Reliable Med joined China's leading analytical scientists at the 2026 Analytical Testing Frontier Forum, where its mass spectrometry research was named from the main stage.
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Visit Reliable Australasia at FoodPro 2026: MCEC Melbourne, Stand D49
We are exhibiting at FoodPro, 26 to 29 July 2026 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. Visit Stand D49 to talk mass spectrometry for food testing with our local team.
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Reliable Australasia launches: local mass spectrometry for Australia and New Zealand
Reliable Australasia opens its doors with a Lane Cove demonstration office and a locally based team delivering ICP-MS, LC-MS/MS and portable GC-MS platforms with install, training and after-sales support.
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