Clinical and biological materials, foods and beverages

Abstract

1 Analysis of clinical and biological materials 1.1 General reviews and articles 1.2 Sampling and sample preparation 1.2.1 Sample collection and pretreatment 1.2.2 Solid and slurry sampling 1.2.3 Sample digestion 1.2.4 Preconcentration 1.3 Developments in and applications of multi-element techniques 1.3.1 Atomic emission spectrometry with the inductively coupled plasma and the microwave induced plasma 1.3.2 Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and other mass spectrometric techniques 1.3.2.1 Reviews 1.3.2.2 Overcoming interferences in quadrupole ICP-MS (Q-ICP-MS) 1.3.2.3 Multielement determination by Q-ICP-MS 1.3.2.4 Laser ablation ICP-MS 1.3.2.5 Electrothermal vaporization ICP-MS 1.3.2.6 Double focusing magnetic sector ICP-MS 1.3.2.7 Determination of stable isotopes by mass spectrometry 1.3.2.8 Accelerator mass spectrometry 1.3.3 X-ray fluorescence spectrometry 1.3.4 Other multielement techniques and studies 1.4 Developments in single element techniques 1.5 Reference materials and quality assurance 1.6 Hair and nail analysis 1.7 Drugs and pharmaceuticals 1.8 Marine and freshwater biology 1.9 Progress for individual elements 1.9.1 Aluminium 1.9.2 Antimony 1.9.3 Arsenic 1.9.4 Bismuth 1.9.5 Boron 1.9.6 Bromine 1.9.7 Cadmium 1.9.8 Calcium 1.9.9 Chromium 1.9.10 Cobalt 1.9.11 Copper and zinc 1.9.12 Gallium 1.9.13 Germanium 1.9.14 Indium 1.9.15 Iodine 1.9.16 Iron 1.9.17 Lanthanides 1.9.18 Lead 1.9.19 Magnesium 1.9.20 Manganese 1.9.21 Mercury 1.9.22 Molybdenum 1.9.23 Nickel 1.9.24 Platinum group metals 1.9.25 Selenium 1.9.26 Silicon 1.9.27 Silver 1.9.28 Sodium and potassium 1.9.29 Strontium 1.9.30 Titanium 1.9.31 Thallium 1.9.32 Tin 1.9.33 Tungsten 1.9.34 Uranides 1.9.35 Vanadium 1.10 Conclusions 2 Analysis of foods and beverages 2.1 Sampling and sample preparation 2.1.1 Extraction 2.1.2 Digestion 2.1.3 Preconcentration 2.2 Speciation 2.3 Developments in methodology for flame atomic absorption spectrometry 2.4 Developments in methodology for electrothermal atomic absorption spectrometry 2.5 Developments in methodology for inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry 2.6 Progress in individual elements 2.6.1 Arsenic 2.6.2 Iodine 2.6.3 Mercury 2.6.4 Selenium 2.7 Single and multi-element analysis of food 2.7.1 Wine and alcoholic beverages 2.7.2 Metal contamination in food 2.8 Dietary intake studies 2.9 Characterization studies 2.10 Reference materials and collaborative trials Table 1 Analysis of clinical and biological materials, foods and beverages 3 References