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    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Standard reference for nucleic acid analysis</title>
      <description>A unique stable material has been developed by Chris Burgess in conjunction with Starna's Technical Division, that exhibits similar spectral characteristics to pure DNA</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Accurate tracking of CRMs through bar codes</title>
      <description>Certified reference materials (CRM) sets supplied by Starna Scientific now feature set identification labels and support documentation that contain unique serial number bar codes</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Drug photostability testing complies with ICH Q1B</title>
      <description>Starna's drug photostability testing kit features a PTFE capped screw cap cell to avoid sample contamination difficulties</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Optical reference materials in pollution fight</title>
      <description>Standard MOT/08/19/1 specifies that instruments for measuring smoke emissions must be calibrated using glass neutral density filters with accurately known transmittance values</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Qualification of UV systems course at Pittcon</title>
      <description>Qualification of UV systems to meet new pharmaceutical standards is once again one of the short courses on specialised aspects of analytical chemistry in 2008's Pittsburgh Conference programme</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Biofilm studies will benefit from new Starna cell</title>
      <description>Porthole cells are typical of the specialised solutions developed by Starna Scientific using optical manufacturing expertise accumulated in over 40 years supplying the scientific community</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Starna short path cells are 'small but perfect'</title>
      <description>These cells are ideal for the measurement of low transmittance samples when dilution is not an option</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Better qualification of plate readers</title>
      <description>The new Starna liquid plate reader CRMs have a unique sealed cell design, which allows their use horizontally in the plate reader, or vertically in a reference spectrophotometer for certification</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>CRMs for NIR now available from Starna</title>
      <description>Unique new certified reference materials for the near infra red (NIR) region of the spectrum provide 13 certified and traceable peak values using a newly developed material</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Seeing double for certified reference materials</title>
      <description>With the commissioning of a second reference spectrophotometer, the CRM calibration laboratory at Starna Scientific now has a resource that is usually only available to National Reference Laboratories</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Validation for UV plate readers</title>
      <description>A unique new fully traceable Ukas accredited calibration product from Starna allows users of plate readers to validate their measurements in the UV region</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Are your standards the real thing?</title>
      <description>The International Laboratory Accreditation Convention (Ilac) says only suppliers complying with both ISO 17025 and ISO Guide 34 are recognised as accredited suppliers of Certified Reference Materials</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Starna expert for Pittcon course</title>
      <description>'Qualification of UV systems to meet new pharmaceutical standards' is once again one of the short courses on specialised aspects of analytical chemistry in next year's Pittsburgh Conference programme</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Track stray light traceably in spectrophotometry</title>
      <description>Stray light (stray radiant power ratio or SRPR) is an easily undetected source of error in UV-visible spectrophotometry, and when present causes depressed absorbance readings at high absorbance values</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Deep UV optics with proven quality</title>
      <description>Starna has introduced new quality assurance technology in its Hainault (UK) plant to prove the reflectivity of their far-UV (vacuum-UV) mirrors</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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      <title>Measure cell fluorescence without a microscope</title>
      <description>With this device, standard (11x22mm) coverslips can be easily and reproducibly located in a fluorescence cuvette in a defined orientation 45deg to the excitation beam</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 08:00:00 UT</pubDate>
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