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Pesticide Residue Testing

Eclipse has been in the business of pesticide residue testing for nearly 20 years (click here for details of our pesticide residue testing services), with expertise built up in two parts of the UK where fruits, vegetable and other agricultural crops are widely grown:

East Anglia – Chatteris, Cambridgeshire (Aspland & James Limited) and

Vale of Evesham – Pershore, Worcestershire (Restec Laboratories Limited).

Aspland & James Limited was founded in 1980 and became active in pesticide residue testing in 1983, as part of a general contract laboratory testing service, predominantly to the food, animal feed agrochemical and pharmaceutical industry sectors. It became part of the Eclipse Scientific Group in 1998.

Restec Laboratories Limited was founded in 1986 and specialised from the start in pesticide residue testing, supplemented by legislative and other information services, together with expertise in niche areas such as tea and tobacco. The firm joined Eclipse in 2003.

Both organisations’ operation to the highest standards was reflected in extensive UKAS accreditations and GLP recognitions. The combined experience of the two is reflected in the Restec@Eclipse name applied to our pesticide residue testing business, renowned as a key provider of a top quality, comprehensive residue analysis service that includes:

organophosphorus
organochlorine
pyrethroid
triazine
dicarboximide
organonitrogen compounds

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organophosphorus
organochlorine
animal feeds
pyrethroid
agricultural crops
triazine
dicarboximide

Pesticide Residue Testing We have access to extensive historical data as well as being able to call on reliable in-house expertise when providing testing services, suggesting appropriate combinations of compounds for testing in commodities or developing methods for new pesticides or product matrices.

The Pesticide Residue Analysis laboratories are located in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire. Analytical techniques used are primarily Gas Chromatography (GC) and High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and all positive results are confirmed (e.g. by GC-MS or GC-MS-MS). Methods for virtually all compounds are UKAS accredited.

To keep up with and ahead of the ever greater demands of pesticide legislation – increasing numbers of compounds and lower legislative limits (MRLs) – liquid chromatography coupled with a mass spectrometric detector (LCMS) is required.

Use of this technology has enabled Eclipse to analyse products for a wide range of new compounds that are becoming used commercially, to confidently achieve lower reporting limits and to rapidly confirm any residues found that give cause for concern. It has also permitted to us to bring in house analysis of previously sub-contracted compounds eg chlormequat.

Eclipse also provides extensive support to help clients in the agrochemical industry develop analytical tests to detect new pesticides and their metabolites. Click here to enter the Pesticide Residue Testing section of our website.

In addition we offer free advice on testing regimes and current developments in legislation.

Minumum Sample Sizes that we require for testing.

Results can be offered in a variety of formats including e-mail, first class post, fax and direct data transfer.
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Agrochemical Testing: Eclipse undertakes extensive support work for clients in the agrochemical industries. Analytical method development and validation. Analysis and storage stability testing. Formulated product and residue sample analysis - carried out in separate buildings. Residue data generation for registration of new uses of established as well as new compounds. All studies performed in accordance with GLP requirements.

 

 
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