Agilent Technologies has hosted the first of three leadership delegations from China's Anti-Doping Agency, as China prepares for the 2008 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
\"China has quickly become a world model for anti-doping efforts\" said Du Lijun, director of China's Anti-Doping Agency. \"Agilent's liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry instrumentation will help make China's Anti-Doping Agency testing in the 2008 Olympic Games the most technologically advanced yet.\"<\/p>\n
The meetings include technical training on anti-doping instruments and methods developed by Agilent, a primary supplier of technology to China's Anti-Doping Agency since 1988. The China Anti-Doping Agency is one of the largest and most technologically advanced testing facilities in the world. It will examine more than 4,500 samples from athletes during the 2008 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
The agency has equipped its Beijing lab with state-of-the-art Agilent liquid chromatography, gas chromatography and mass spectrometry instruments to confirm the chemical identity of suspected banned substances found in testing samples.<\/p>\n
The China Anti-Doping Agency, previously known as the China Doping Control Center, has been accredited by the International Olympic Committee from 1989 to 2003 and by the World Anti-Doping Agency since 2004. It is located in the National Olympic Center, which was the main venue area for 13th Asian Games in 1990 and is a competition venue for the 2008 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n
Agilent is a leading provider of LC\/MS and GC\/MS instrumentation. A mass spectrometer is often directly connected to a liquid chromatograph or gas chromatograph to form highly sensitive and specific LC\/MS or GC\/MS systems. A liquid or gas chromatograph is used to separate and detect the components in a sample. The mass spectrometer measures the molecular weight of substances, generating a spectral pattern that is unique to the compound being analyzed. This chemical \"fingerprint\" is compared to a database of reference spectra to provide unambiguous confirmation of the compound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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