Speciation News

A group of researchers working at the University of Graz performed simultaneous selenium and sulfur speciation analysis in cultured mushrooms using ion-pairing reversed-phase chromatography coupled to...

NRC Metrology released a set of mineral supplement and multivitamin certified reference materials (CRMs). These will help ensure the quality and safety of nutritional supplements for consumers by enab...

EU regulation from 2014, meant to reduce the dietary exposure to cadmium, gave ample of time to allow the cocoa producing countries and chocolate industry to adapt to these. The "new" regulation for m...

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....