Pollution from heavy metals has increased in recent decades and has become an important
concern for environmental agencies. Arsenic, cadmium, copper, mercury and lead are …

The determination of trace metals in solid samples has traditionally been performed by acid
digestion and subsequent measurement by a suitable instrumental technique. This …

This two-volume handbook supplies food chemists with essential information on the physical
and chemical properties of nutrients, descriptions of analytical techniques, and an …

The adsorption process is one of the most promising alternatives for textile effluent
treatment. Different materials have been used as adsorbents and most of them present hard …

This paper describes a simple method for the determination of sixteen elements in food
samples by using inductively coupled plasma spectrometry (ICP-MS). Prior to analysis, 100 …

The optimization of an ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) method for tartaric and malic
acids from grape derived samples is shown. A fractional factorial experimental design …

A lot of elements occur in different matrices at low levels of content, and a lot of these
elements were not detectable by analytical methods for a long time. The knowledge about …

Even though normal exposure levels to Cd may be small, the human body is inefficient at
excreting the heavy metal, so it slowly accumulates over the period of a lifetime. Eventually …

The potential toxicity of mercury (Hg) content in fish has been widely evaluated by the
scientific community, with Methylmercury (MeHg) being the only legislated species (1 mg …

A simple method is described for the determination of Cd, Cu, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn in nails by
using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) or electrothermal atomic …