Pharmaceutical Sciences

ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Analytical chemistry is a branch of chemistry that deals with the separation, identification and quantification of chemical compounds. Chemical analyses can be qualitative, as in the identification of the chemical components in a sample, or quantitative, as in the determination of the amount of a certain component in the sample. Analytical chemistry is an important tier of environmental protection and has been traditionally linked to compliance and/or exposure monitoring activities for environmental contaminants. Namely, methods developed for regulated contaminants may not be appropriate and/or applicable to risk management scenarios.