Online HPLC Solution Secures Analytical Workflow of Pharma Labs

HPLC has been and continues to be a workhorse of the pharmaceutical laboratory. Throughout the product lifecycle from pre-formulation to QC, HPLC coupled with dissolution and content uniformity/assay testing are some of the biggest sample sources for HPLC analysis.

SOTAX has developed a variety of offline autosampler solutions over the decades. Offline samples are withdrawn from the company’s instruments, immediately filtered and collected in a variety of formats. To further automate the analytical workflow and to avoid costly manual transfer mistakes, SOTAX has announced the latest addition to its line of autosamplers — the SAM Sample Manager.

SAM guarantees a seamless flow from dissolution samples to analytical results. Totally flexible and scalable, the system is available in three different capacities to connect to semi-automated single, double and fully-automated systems: SAM S (small for up to 240 samples), SAM M (medium for up to 480 samples), and SAM L (large for up to 720 samples). SAM acts as a transfer platform, keeping samples protected and injecting them one by one into HPLC, all without any vial transfer. The system works with any HPLC instrument with ready signal functionality and can be integrated with a variety of different injection valves.

SAM is driven by the WinSOTAXplus Advanced Dissolution Software while the LC data is processed with the existing chromatography software. SAM will take care of the samples seamlessly from start to analytical finish.

SOTAX AG, +41 61 487 54 20, petra.silbereisen@sotax.com, www.sotax.com.