Speciation News

15 years ago we reported about the hypothesis that aluminum salts in antiperspirants are causing breast cancer. It is time to follow up and to summarize what has been investigate so far....

Mercury released into the atmosphere by mainly thermic industrial processes is transported via different ways to the sea where it enters the marine food web. Now a study directed by the University of ...

Researchers from Germany and France have developed a strategy to obtain information about gadolinium species that degrade during extraction from bone tissue. ...

Researchers from LGC Ltd. (UK) developed a calibration method for speciation analysis using chromatographic separation that can correct for on-column analyte losses and signal drift and can be applied...

Researchers from U.S. FDA have analysed 46 seaweed samples purchased from the U.S. market for total arsenic and arsenic speciation. Arsenosugars were dominant in most seaweeds, inorganic arsenic did n...

Researchers from Poland have compared microwave induced plasma optical emission spectrometry (MIP OES) and inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP OES) for the detection of iron ...

Researchers from the Nestlé Research Laboratories have presented a new accurate and robust method for quantification of vitamin B12 in human milk. The method is based on a highly specific sample prepa...

Researchers from the IAEA Environment Laboratories in Monaco have developed a highly automated method for the ultratrace determination of methylmercury in seawater. The developed method was optimized ...

Researchers from France and Denmark now aimed at clarifying conflicting results for the presence of hexavalent chromium in bread and breakfast cereals. Using highly selective separation by HPLC couple...

Polish researchers developed, optimized and validated a method for the determination of inorganic ionic Te(VI) and Te(IV) forms in easily-leached fractions of soil by Ion Chromatography-Inductively Co...