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Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 23 June 2006
Raising the bar for standards in China
Collaborations with China's premier food safety and environmental centers signifies a strong vote of confidence in Waters and its commitment to China's food safety and environmental challenges
Waters has formally announced collaborations with the China Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control (China CDC), Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Prevention and Control (BJCDC) and the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to provide technology and expertise for food safety analysis and environmental regulatory compliance Waters is one of the world's leading scientific analytical instrument companies in liquid chromatography (UPLC), mass spectrometry (MS) and laboratory informatics, all of which are essential enabling technologies for the analytical laboratory
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 2 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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These joint collaborations with China's premier food safety and environmental centers signifies a strong vote of confidence in Waters and its commitment to address China's rapidly increasing food safety and environmental challenges.
This announcement and ceremony solidifies the partnerships aimed at bringing out the best in each organisation in meeting increasingly stringent food safety and environmental standards in China.
"Waters is excited about having the opportunity to provide a range of robust technologies and expertise to complement the Chinese food safety and environmental agencies in ensuring that international standards are not only met, but exceeded," explains Art Caputo, president of Waters Division.
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"We embrace the groundbreaking research being conducted by our Chinese partners and their feedback will, in turn, allow us to better our products and services.
"It is a synergistic partnership.
"The collaboration we are currently engaged in with Waters helps us to develop advanced applications and solutions to problems unique to China's development," Wu Yongning, director of chemical contamination control at China CDC.
Director of Beijing CDC, Liu Ze Jun affirms: "Indeed, our partnership with Waters has already produced very rewarding results".
"We look forward to intensifying our relationship with Waters".
One of Waters's cutting-edge innovations, Acquity ultra performance LC (UPLC), a breakthrough in separation science pioneered by Waters, eliminates significant time and cost per sample from the analytical process while improving the quality of results.
The collaboration with the various food safety and environmental agencies and their rapid adoption to embrace the latest technology and application solutions, reinforces China's commitment to improve and comply with international standards.
"As one of the state guardians in ensuring strict food safety standards for the public, such collaboration is timely and crucial," states Zheng Minghui, professor and associate director, State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology for RCEES.
"We are confident that this partnership with Waters will complement China's on-going commitment in food safety and environmental standards, especially in the area of analytical method development in toxicology".
Since 1983, Waters China has supported some of Asia's largest laboratories including those in Shanghai and Beijing.
Waters's clients in China include pharmaceutical industry, research centers, disease control centers, product inspections, environmental protection agencies and departments, etc.
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