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Dipl. Chemie Ing., Instrumentalized Analytical Chemistry, University Niederrhein
Regional Marketing Manager EMEA, GC and GC-MS, TEA, Thermo Fisher Scientific
Petra Gerhards is the regional marketing manager for the EMEA region for Thermo Fisher Scientific, with expertise in the areas of gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. She joined Thermo Fisher in 2016.
Petra Gerhards is the regional marketing manager for the EMEA region for Thermo Fisher Scientific, with expertise in the areas of gas chromatography and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. She has authored more than 30 blog posts on topics such as the following: environmental and food analysis of VOC, MOSH/MOAH, pesticide residue, toxic metals, and dioxins, to name a few. Petra joined Thermo Fisher in 2016.
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Read more Ask the Experts: Practical Answers to Today’s Biggest MOSH/MOAH Analysis Questions
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September 1, 2025
Read more MOSH/MOAH Analysis: Technology, Regulation, and the Road Ahead
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Read more New European Wine Scandal on PFAS in Wine
June 2, 2025
Read more Pesticide Residue Analysis in the 21st Century: Innovations in Sample Preparation and Detection Using the Thermo Scientific TSQ 9610 GC-MS/MS
February 19, 2025
Read more Ensuring Baby Food Safety: Tackling Toxic Metals with Advanced Technology
February 17, 2025
Read more Unveiling the Advanced Workflow for PAH Analysis in Smoke Flavored Foods
April 9, 2024
Read more What are Dioxins and PCBs, and What Type of GC-MS Should You Use to Analyze Them?
March 7, 2024
Read more Methylmercury in Edible Fish: How to Detect Critical Levels in Cod and Tuna?
September 19, 2023
Read more An Easy, Sensitive and Automated Method to Measure VOCs in Drinking Water with ITEX
September 5, 2023
Read more New Challenges in the Analysis of MOSH/MOAH
June 19, 2023
Read more Microplastics in Your Salt? The Truth About Fleur de Sel
April 24, 2023
Read more Headspace GC-MS Analysis: Ideal for Rancidity in Nuts
January 4, 2023
Read more You Try to Eat Healthier, But How to Avoid a Bad Taste in Your Mouth?
November 22, 2022
Read more MOSH/MOAH Discovery in German Butter May Spoil Your Taste for Holiday Treats
September 21, 2022
Read more Do All Your Yogurts Taste the Same? If Not, You Need a GC Orbitrap
July 25, 2022
Read more A Fully Automated MOSH/MOAH Workflow for Reliable Results More Easily
April 5, 2022
Read more Perform Data Treatment for Chlorinated Paraffins in 10 Seconds?
September 4, 2021
Read more Changed Drug Behavior Under COVID-19
September 1, 2021
Read more Toxic Gases in Food and the Threat of Ethylene Oxide
June 18, 2021
Read more Sample Preparation in Food Analysis: Why is it Such a Headache?
May 17, 2021
Read more Automating Sample Preparation for Food Analysis – the Holy Grail
January 2, 2021
Read more A Typical Day in a GC Lab and What Can Go Wrong?
October 19, 2020
Read more Fentanyl, Norfentanyl Detection Workflow Down to 0.1 Ng/Ml in Urine After Fentanyl Skin Patch Abuse
June 24, 2020
Read more A Fully Automated Method for MCPD- and GE-esters and the Importance of Glass Quality of the Used Autosampler Vials
January 8, 2020
Read more Sample Handling Made Easy!
April 17, 2019
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