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Meet current and future guidelines

Whether you are accredited to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) or one of many other global and regional governing bodies, keeping up to date on current prohibited substance screening isn’t easy.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is routinely selected to support in and out of competition testing with high-throughput instruments for screening large sets of compounds efficiently in a single methods approach, while staying ahead of future banned substances.

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Answer your most challenging sport testing applications with our high-performance GC-MS & GC-MS/MS systems.

To ensure athletes play true, our market leading solutions help you profile athletes and confirm steroid use with the precision and sensitivity expected.

Whether you require high-throughput, highly sensitive quantitative performance or screening solutions to retrospectively answer tomorrow's doping questions, we have you covered.

Sample preparation is a key step in analytical workflow. Our solutions include a multitude of consumables and automated platforms to enable fast, reproducible and easy sample preparation—whatever your workflow requirements may be.

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Comprehensive screening of known and unknown performance enhancing substances is a critical part of maintaining sports true.


Typical prohibited substance screening workflows

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Sample preparation

Prohibited substance testing routinely screens athletes for hundreds of compounds in a number of WADA Classes. Not all hyphenated mass spectrometry workflows offer the sensitivity or performance capabilities necessary to measure the analytes of interest, laboratories utilize a variety of configurations. Starting with typically urine-based samples, laboratories will need to utilize a multi-step preparation to maximize system sensitivity.

GC-MS workflows (non-peptidic):

Hydrolysis + Extraction + Derivatization

LC-MS workflows (peptidic & non-peptidic):

Hydrolysis + Extraction

Screen and qualify

Sports testing laboratories rely on a variety of mass spectrometry based workflows to test for various WADA Classes of prohibited substances. Below is a comparative table of the various techniques. As technologies advance with increased performance, we continue to see a shift in platforms used.

Which mass spectrometer is right for you?

TRACE 1610 Gas Chromatograph and ISQ 7610 Single Quadrupole GC-MS SystemTRACE 1610 Gas Chromatograph and ISQ 7610 Single Quadrupole GC-MS SystemTRACE 1610 Gas Chromatograph and TSQ 9610 Triple Quadrupole GC-MS/MS SystemTRACE 1610 Gas Chromatograph and TSQ 9610 Triple Quadrupole GC-MS/MS SystemUltiMate 3000 RS HPLC systems and TSQ Altis Triple Quadrupole mass spectrometerUltiMate 3000 RS HPLC systems and TSQ Altis Triple Quadrupole mass spectrometerUltiMate 3000 RSLCnano system and Q Exactive Plus Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap Mass SpectrometerUltiMate 3000 RSLCnano system and Q Exactive Plus Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer
Targeted Screening
Quantitation
Unknown Profiling & Retrospective Screening
Typical WADA classes: S1, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8*
Typical WADA classes: SO, S2, S4.5, S9, P1, P2*
Sample throughputLow to mediumLow to mediumHighMedium to high
Cost$$$$$$$$$
Sample prepModerateModerateMinimalMinimal
Dynamic range7 logs7 logs≤ 6 logs≤ 6 logs

* not all applications may require nanoHPLC

Sample preparation

Prohibited substance testing routinely screens athletes for hundreds of compounds in a number of WADA Classes. Not all hyphenated mass spectrometry workflows offer the sensitivity or performance capabilities necessary to measure the analytes of interest, laboratories utilize a variety of configurations. Starting with typically urine-based samples, laboratories will need to utilize a multi-step preparation to maximize system sensitivity.

GC-MS workflows (non-peptidic):

Hydrolysis + Extraction + Derivatization

LC-MS workflows (peptidic & non-peptidic):

Hydrolysis + Extraction

Screen and qualify

Sports testing laboratories rely on a variety of mass spectrometry based workflows to test for various WADA Classes of prohibited substances. Below is a comparative table of the various techniques. As technologies advance with increased performance, we continue to see a shift in platforms used.

Which mass spectrometer is right for you?

TRACE 1610 Gas Chromatograph and ISQ 7610 Single Quadrupole GC-MS SystemTRACE 1610 Gas Chromatograph and ISQ 7610 Single Quadrupole GC-MS SystemTRACE 1610 Gas Chromatograph and TSQ 9610 Triple Quadrupole GC-MS/MS SystemTRACE 1610 Gas Chromatograph and TSQ 9610 Triple Quadrupole GC-MS/MS SystemUltiMate 3000 RS HPLC systems and TSQ Altis Triple Quadrupole mass spectrometerUltiMate 3000 RS HPLC systems and TSQ Altis Triple Quadrupole mass spectrometerUltiMate 3000 RSLCnano system and Q Exactive Plus Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap Mass SpectrometerUltiMate 3000 RSLCnano system and Q Exactive Plus Hybrid Quadrupole-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer
Targeted Screening
Quantitation
Unknown Profiling & Retrospective Screening
Typical WADA classes: S1, S3, S4, S5, S6, S7, S8*
Typical WADA classes: SO, S2, S4.5, S9, P1, P2*
Sample throughputLow to mediumLow to mediumHighMedium to high
Cost$$$$$$$$$
Sample prepModerateModerateMinimalMinimal
Dynamic range7 logs7 logs≤ 6 logs≤ 6 logs

* not all applications may require nanoHPLC


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