Spot Test Analysis
Subtitle: Clinical, Environmental, Forensic, and Geochemical Applications, 2nd Edition
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience; Wiley
Published: December 9, 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780471124122
First sentence: In the last four decades the classical spot reactions have been successfully applied in large-scale analytical problems in clinical analysis, in control tests of air quality, in food and water analysis, in geochemical prospecting, in crime laboratories, in soil testing, and in juridical chemical studies.
Description: Spot Test Analysis, Second Edition is a practical and far-reaching laboratory reference book. In addition to explaining the contemporary uses of spot and screen tests, this text describes the most up-to-date techniques for academic, medical, and commercial applications.

This revised and updated Second Edition is as thorough in its treatment of techniques and applications as its predecessor. It provides many new wet and dry immunoassay procedures, such as tests for cholesterol and HDL, HIV and HSV, drugs, and explosives.

Whole sections are devoted to spot testing in geochemistry, detecting toxins in air pollution, testing water for inorganic matter, and analyzing diagnostic test strips for foods, such as diethylene glycol in wine, saxitoxin in shellfish, and antibiotics in milk.