QuEChERS

QuEChERS stands for Quick Easy Cheap Effective Rugged Safe and is the acronym for a highly beneficial analytical approach that vastly simplifies the analysis of multiple pesticide residues in fruit, vegetables, cereals and processed products.

The QuEChERS procedure entails a number of simple analytical steps and is fast and easy to perform. QuEChERS provides high recoveries for a very broad scope of pesticides belonging to various chemical classes and the final extract, being solved in acetonitrile, gives full flexibility in the choice of the determinative analysis technique.

QuEChERS is a widely used sample preparation technique designed to simplify the extraction and clean-up of complex samples before chromatographic analysis. Standing for Quick, Easy, Cheap, Effective, Rugged, and Safe, QuEChERS extraction is commonly used in food, pesticide, and mycotoxin testing to deliver efficient multiresidue analysis with high recoveries and reproducibility. By combining solvent extraction with dispersive SPE clean-up, QuEChERS helps remove unwanted matrix interferences such as pigments, fats, and waxes, supporting cleaner extracts and more reliable GC-MS and LC-MS results. 

Our range of QuEChERS products includes convenient, high-quality kits for fast, reproducible sample preparation across a wide range of applications. Available for different sample matrices and methods, including Original, AOAC, and EN approaches, these QuEChERS extraction and dispersive SPE solutions support efficient clean-up, excellent analyte recovery, and reliable analytical performance. Options include combined extraction and clean-up kits, as well as extraction-only and clean-up-only formats, making it easier to match the right QuEChERS kit to your specific analytes, workflow, and method requirements.