Presented by: Benjamin Johnson, Manager, NSF | Yongdong Wang, President, Cerno Bioscience

Overview

NSF International provides services to certify the safety of drinking water equipment (NSF/ANSI 61). With 7000-8000 samples evaluated every year, the deconvolution, identification, and quantitation of Tentatively Identified Compounds (TICs) can require hours (for “clean” samples) to days (“dirty” samples) of tedious manual review from a team of four or more highly trained experts. A sample backlog of up to six months was not uncommon, and hiring and training additional analysts was a lengthy and expensive process. To complicate the problem further, multiple worldwide sites used different instrumentation, and some lacked the expertise to analyze the more complex samples.

In this webinar, we will explore

• Why vendor-neutral software solutions are vital for global operations.
• How analysis tools should be as easy to learn and automate as possible to reduce training costs and minimize human error.
• Understand why simplifying and automating the expertise needed for review and interpretation is essential to lessen reliance on scarce and costly experienced analysts.
• Why LIMS interfacing must be flexible, easy to implement, and robust.