In recent years, quality requirements as outlined by ISO 9000, GLP, GMP and NAMAS have assumed increasing importance. As a consequence, the recommendations of pharmacopoeias have become more influential in the pharmaceutical industry. Formal performance verification of UV-Visible spectrophotometers is now essential, but because of the non-availability of appropriate and/or easy-to-use standards, it has been done in ways which do not fully meet regulatory requirements or it has been very time consuming.

Agilent Technologies has made performance verification of the Agilent 8453 spectrophotometer much easier by making available sets of liquid standards in snap-open ampoules.

The standards can be used with standard open-topped cuvettes, but to reduce the time required and to minimize errors due to cross-contamination from standard to standard, Agilent recommends the use of flow cells for the verification. A hardware kit is available which includes all the items necessary. For reasons of safety in shipment the standards are packaged in two kits.

These are checkout samples only (not certified)