Merck Sharp & Dohme was granted a patent for nitrosamine testing.

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    "patent_abstract": "This invention describes a novel method encompassing preparing a nitrosamine sample, adding in relevant chemicals that reduces or eliminates in situ nitrosamine formation, utilizing full evaporation static headspace gas chromatograph coupled with nitrogen phosphorous detector (FE-SHSGC-NPD), and analysis of rapid results in the gaseous phase for sensitive detection of semi-volatile nitrosamines, including NDMA.",
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