Blood Alcohol Determination with the New Teledyne Tekmar Versa Headspace Instrument

Recently, Teledyne Tekmar released the Versa, their latest innovative headspace instrument. Initially developed for the pharmaceutical industry to provide an economical headspace system for residual solvent analysis, the Versa can provide forensic/toxicology laboratories similar benefits.

Blood alcohol analysis is one of a variety of headspace methods performed in forensic/toxicology laboratories. Large laboratories that routinely perform numerous blood alcohol analyses currently benefit from the Teledyne Tekmar HT3™ headspace instrument.

The newly released Versa was evaluated to determine its suitability to perform an occasional blood alcohol test. Methanol, acetone, ethanol, isopropanol and acetaldehyde along with n-propanol, a typical internal standard, were tested with the Versa headspace instrument.

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