Speciation News

Following a meeting held in September between the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCOPAFF) with the European Commission, it has been decided to discontinue for the time being the...

The European Union on Tuesday agreed on a cap for cadmium levels in fertilisers in a move welcomed by Russia’s Phosagro but greeted with some scepticism by a European industry lobby. ...

A group of US researchers reported results obtained by coupled micro X-ray fluorescence (µXRF) and X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) for determining the presence of specific sulfur species ...

A group of Chinese researchers demonstrated that polybrominated diphenyl ethers can be quantified accurately by using compound-independent calibration under optimized conditions for GC-ICP-MS....

According to a three year investigation of the efficacy of REACH regulation by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), companies are breaking EU law by marketing hundreds of potential...

Researchers from the Universities of Münster and Antwerp have studied the ICP-MS signal generation from gold nanoparticles of different size both experimentally and by plasma modeling. ...

A method for mercury isotope ratio measurements for methylmercury in fish based on HPLC combined with MC-ICP-MS has been developed by UK-based scientists from LGC....

The South Korea government said it would ban 13 linear gadolinium contrast agents used for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests until the end of this year....

The EU’s chemicals watchdog has concluded that substances found in tattooing inks may pose a cancer risk, although there is no direct evidence, and member states will vote in 2019 on restrictions for ...

FDA has issued a call for comments on a proposed change to the International Council for Harmonization (ICH) Q3D Elemental Impurities guidance document that corrects a calculation error in the permiss...