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Release Number: 3.2 SP1
Release Date: 07/03/2023

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Introduction

This document contains the release notes for visionCATS 3.2 SP1. The following sections describe the release in detail and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements the main documentation.

Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Installation procedure for full details.

Manifest

See Parts supplied.

System Requirements

See PC System Requirements.

What’s new in visionCATS 3.2 SP1?

See What’s new in visionCATS 3.2 SP1.

Known Problems and Workarounds

Please refer to Known Issues and Workarounds.

We are pleased to announce the launch of the TLC Visualizer 3. The latest generation of CAMAG’s imaging and documentation system for white light and UV fluorescence detection features an enhanced industrial camera of the newest generation equipped with a high-performance CMOS sensor for highly sensitive acquisition of premium-quality images and provides superior performance in white light, long-wave UV (366 nm) and short-wave UV (254 nm) illumination with maximum homogeneity.

At the same time the newest software version visionCATS 3.2 SP1 which is prerequisite to run the TLC Visualizer 3 is available for download.

Hard copies of the product brochure “CAMAG® TLC Visualizer 3” will become available in the coming days (Item ID 996.2099) and can be preordered already now.

The CBS 129 is dedicated to our colleagues at Chromacim. With our French representative, we look back on 20 years of mutual history. Users from industry as well as from the regulatory and academic sectors present their work in connection with the HPTLC. Three impressive HPTLC applications from French customers are featured in this issue.

Moreover, the CAMAG Laboratory HPTLC introduces a new concept for the routine use of HPTLC. Together with the Universal HPTLC Mix, the right tools for efficient screening in quality control are now available.

Enjoy reading!

Release Number: 3.2.22308.1
Release Date: 04/11/2022

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Introduction

This document contains the release notes for visionCATS 3.2. The following sections describe the release in detail and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements the main documentation.

Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Installation procedure for full details.

Manifest

See Parts supplied.

System Requirements

See PC System Requirements.

What’s new in visionCATS 3.2?

See What’s new in visionCATS 3.2.

Known Problems and Workarounds

Please refer to Known Issues and Workarounds.

Release of visionCATS 3.2

visionCATS 3.2 has been released and is available for download at www.camag.com/visionCATS.

This latest release visionCATS 3.2 provides full support of the Module DERIVATIZATION in addition the other available modules PLATE STORAGE, APPLICATION, and DEVELOPMENT, allowing to perform the entire chromatographic processing fully automated and without human interaction.

Further enhancements include:

• Evaluation improvements
• 21 CFR Part 11 compliance improvements
• HPTLC PRO support improvements
• Track assignment table improvements
• Other improvements
• Bug fixes

For detailed information on visionCATS 3.2, please visit the visionCATS Online Documentation.

Please do note that with the release of visionCATS 3.2, importing files or upgrading a whole installation from versions prior to visionCATS 2.4 is not supported anymore.

Release Number: 3.2.22297.5
Release Date: 24/10/2022

Customer Support

For more information or support, please email us at support@camag.com

Introduction

This document contains the release notes for visionCATS 3.2. The following sections describe the release in detail and provide late-breaking or other information that supplements the main documentation.

Installation and Upgrade Notes

Installation

See Installation procedure for full details.

Manifest

See Parts supplied.

System Requirements

See PC System Requirements.

What’s new in visionCATS 3.2?

See What’s new in visionCATS 3.2.

Known Problems and Workarounds

Please refer to Known Issues and Workarounds.

An essential oil is defined as an “odorous product, usually of complex composition, obtained from a botanically defined plant raw material by steam distillation, dry distillation, or a suitable mechanical process without heating.” The quality of essential oils is described in monographs of the European Pharmacopoeia. Gas chromatography (GC) and High-Performance Thin-Layer Chromatography (HPTLC) are recommended for proper identification of essential oils.

This application note illustrates the different steps for transferring an HPTLC method to HPTLC PRO. A comparison of results obtained with the two system configurations is shown. The initial method uses standard conditions according to the general chapter <2.8.25> of the European Pharmacopoeia.

Angelica is the genus of about 60 known species, among them Angeliga gigas, A. dahurica, A. sinensis, A. acutiloba and A. pubescens. This method identifies roots and rhizomes of these species by HPTLC fingerprints.

The method adopted in the International HPTLC ATLAS for identification of herbal drugs concerning roots and rhizomes of Angelica spp. was transferred from HPTLC to HPTLC PRO. This application note illustrates the different steps of the method transfer from HPTLC to HPTLC PRO. A comparison of results obtained with the two system configurations is shown. The initial method uses standard conditions according to the general chapter <2.8.25> of the European Pharmacopoeia.

HMOs are the general term for complex sugar molecules (oligosaccharides) occurring in human breast milk. They are important components of human milk that promote infant health. HMOs comprise a group of structurally complex, unconjugated glycans that are highly abundant in human milk. HMOs are minimally digested in the gastrointestinal tract and reach the colon intact, where they shape the microbiota.

The proposed methodology describes how HMOs can be analyzed by HPTLC during different production steps (fermentation and finished products) and demonstrates the quantification of HMOs in different real case samples. Samples are directly applied after a simple dilution step. HMOs, which are lacking a chromophore/fluorophore, are sensitively detected in white light and longwave UV light after derivatization with aniline diphenylamine phosphoric acid reagent.

Focusing on product safety and quality control with HPTLC, the latest issue of the CAMAG Bibliography Service features the following articles:

• Quantification of methylglyoxal in Manuka honey
• Screening for chlorinated paraffins in vegetable oils
• Quantification of glucose degradation products
• The HPTLC Association Substance Database
• HPTLC detection of falsification in drugs