Milestone’s ultraWAVE doubles sample preparation capacity for dietary supplement manufacturer

Eurofins Scientific is the leader in food and pharmaceutical product testing. Eurofins has over 15,000 sta in more than 190 laboratories across 36 countries that perform state-of-the-art analytical techniques to support its clients’ safety standards.
Siddharth Kinare is an analyst at Eurofins’ Trace Element Laboratory in Auckland, New Zealand. The lab’s services include testing water, air, soil, waste and other products to assess their quality and impact on health and the environment.

At the Trace Element Laboratory in Auckland, New Zealand, Eurofins performed digestions using a heating block and perchloric acid. This approach was not only time consuming, but the large volumes of perchloric acid also posed a serious health and safety risk.

The lab purchased Milestone’s ultraWAVE microwave digestion system as an alternative to the heating block. The ultraWAVE performed complete digestions of the lab’s samples, increasing throughput while removing the health and safety risk.
They use a single method for all of the samples.
The ultraWAVE always performs according to their expectations. The cycles done with the ultraWAVE give Eurofins complete digestions, clear solutions and full recovery of the target elements. “The ultraWAVE has offered great benefits, such as fast digestion, high quality and better utilization of our time for other analysis.”