This presentation was delivered at the Environmental Mass Spectrometry Special Interest Group (EMSSIG) at BAT’s R&D facility in Southampton, UK. The meeting drew attention to the methodology employed to analyse complex matrices containing target (or non-target) compounds with a range of physico-chemical properties. The full presentation can be downloaded from the Markes website: http://www.markes.com/Resources/Scientific- publications/Conference-presentations.aspx