From Challenge to Confidence: Advanced GC Column Strategies for Environmental & Food Testing

Environmental and food testing laboratories continually seek new opportunities to improve analytical performance, increase laboratory productivity, and adapt to evolving analytical requirements. Advances in GC column technology are enabling laboratories to achieve greater sensitivity, enhanced robustness, longer column lifetime, and faster method optimization across a wide range of challenging applications.

This webinar will showcase how modern GC column technologies, innovative column formats, and intelligent optimization tools are redefining chromatography workflows. Through real-world examples from environmental and food testing laboratories, attendees will learn how advanced column solutions can improve separations, reduce maintenance requirements, simplify method development, and enhance confidence in analytical results.

After attending this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand how advanced GC column technologies can improve sensitivity, robustness, and overall analytical performance.
• Evaluate innovative column formats and workflow strategies that extend column life and improve laboratory efficiency.
• Apply EZGC tools and best practices to streamline method development, method translation, and chromatographic optimization.

Join us for this valuable educational webinar!

Speaker: Dr. Ramkumar Dhandapani (Director of Product Management, Restek Corporation)

Dr. Ramkumar Dhandapani is a seasoned analytical chemist by background with over 24 years of experience in the chromatography industry and holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry. He is specialized in method development, validation, and troubleshooting of chromatography methods. He has developed numerous regulatory-compliant methods across diverse sectors, including environmental analysis, food quality and safety, pharmaceutical, fuels, and chemical industries. Currently, Dr. Dhandapani is the Director of Product Management at Restek, he is keen on innovation in chromatography and scaling breakthrough innovations to market as commercial products.