Quality Assurance Section

The Quality Assurance section at NPRC boasts the following advanced analytical instruments
for chemical analysis of plant materials:

• Liquid Chromatograph Tandem Mass Spectrometer (LC-MS/MS): For detection,
  identification and quantification of both primary and secondary metabolites in herbal
  materials. Furthermore, the LC-MS/MS is also used for the determination of pesticide
  residues and natural toxins e.g aflatoxins, ochratoxins and fumonisins in plant materials,
  water and biologicals;

• Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS): For analysis of essential oils and
  fragrances as well as other primary metabolites in herbal plants;

• High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) Densitometer: For
  visualization of screened herbal extracts for the purposes of identification and
  fingerprinting of their constituents;

• Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer: For determining the elemental
  composition of plants, soil and fluids;

• Ultra Violet – Visible (UV-Vis) Spectrophotometer: For characterizing chemical
  compounds in plants and other materials based on their ability to absorb UV and Visible
  radiation;

• Fourier Transform Infra-Red (FTIR) Spectrometer with Attenuated Total
  Reflectance (ATR) technology: For creating fingerprints of plant extracts as well as
  rapid determination of chemical functional groups in isolated plant compounds.

NPRC staff working on the Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometer (LC-MS/MS)

NPRC staff working on the UV-Visible Spectrophotometer (UV-VIS)

NPRC staff working on the Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS)

NPRC staff working on the X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometer (XRF)

NPRC staff working on the Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectrophotometer (FTIR)

NPRC staff working on the High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) Densitometer

NPRC staff working in the Quality Assurance Laboratory