Peter Apps Email & Phone Number

Maun, Botswana

I run the BioBoundary Laboratory for Wildlife Chemistry, which is searching for the identities of the chemical signals that African predators use to signal their occupation of an area. The aim is to synthesize scent marks that will keep African wild dogs out of areas where they suffer persecution by livestock farmers, and keep other predators away from.

Pretoria, South Africa

National Metrology Laboratories maintain national measurement standards and reference methods. Their analytical capabilities surpass those of other laboratories. I ran trace analyses to international metrology standards of residues and contaminants in food and beverages, using gas chromatography, gas chromatography - mass spectrometry, high performance.

Pretoria, South Africa

I carried out contract work for the South African food and beverage industries, and I was involved most intensively in trace analysis of food, beverage, and industrial and environmental samples. My troubleshooting speciality was off-flavours, which affected hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of product, and the integrity of international brands. I also.

Onderstepoort, South Africa

I ran gas chromatography, gas chromatography - mass spectrometry, high performance liquid chromatography and “wet” chemistry analyses of metabolic indicators in milk and blood, and drug kinetics and residues in meat, milk and eggs. I used immunochemical meat species identification to detect fraudulent mislabelling of meat and meat products.I was.

I carried out my doctoral research at the Mammal Research Institute and the Institute for Chromatography. It was at the Institute for Chromatography that I began my involvement with the use of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to unravel the complexities of mammalian chemical communication. I designed, built and tested completely novel sampling.