New human hair certified reference material for methylmercury and trace elements

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 357 - Trang 279-283 - 1997
Jun Yoshinaga1, Masatoshi Morita1, Kensaku Okamoto2
1National Institute for Environmental Studies, Ibaraki, Japan
2Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan

Tóm tắt

A new human hair certified reference material (NIES CRM No. 13) for mercury speciation and trace element analysis was prepared at the National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Environmental Agency of Japan. Scalp hair from Japanese males, which is identical with the original material for the previous human hair CRM (NIES CRM No. 5), was used. Special attention was paid to reduce contamination from a grinding vessel during the preparation procedure. A newly-prepared ceramic/Teflon disc mill was used for cryogenic grinding of the hair. 1, 000 bottles (3 g each) were produced after sieving and blending of the hair powder. Certified values for total mercury and methylmercury, as well as other trace elements of toxicological and nutritional significance (antimony, cadmium, copper, lead, selenium, and zinc), were determined based on analyses from extensive collaborations. Reference values for 12 elements (aluminium, arsenic, barium, calcium, cobalt, iron, magnesium, manganese, silver, sodium, sulfur and vanadium) were also given.

Tài liệu tham khảo

Okamoto K (1991) In: Subramanian KS, Iyengar GV, Okamoto K (eds) Biological trace element research. American Chemical Society, pp 257–264 Suzuki T, Hongo T, Yoshinaga J, Imai H, Nakazawa M, Matsuo N, Akagi H (1993) Arch Environ Health 48: 221–229 Airey D (1983) Sci Total Environ 31: 157–180 International Programme on Chemical Safety (1990) Environ Health Criteria, vol 101. Methylmercury. WHO, Geneva Okamoto K, Morita M. Quan H. Uehiro T, Fuwa K (1985) Clin Chem 31: 1592–1597 Stone SF, Backhaus FW, Byrne AR, Gangadharan S, Horvat M, Kratzer K, Parr RM, Schladot JD, Zeisler R (1995) Fresenius J Anal Chem 352: 184–187 Okamoto K, Yoshinaga J, Morita M (1996) Mikrochim Acta (in press) Okamoto K, Fuwa K (1984) Anal Chem 56: 1758–1760 Oishi K, Okumoto T, Iino T, Koga T, Shirasaki T, Furuta N (1994) Spectrochim Acta 49B: 901–914 Okamoto K (1980) Res Rep Natl Inst Environ Stud No 18 Fujita M, Takabatake E (1983) Anal Chem 55: 454–457 Akagi H, Nishimura H (1991) In: Suzuki T, Imura N, Clarkson TW (eds) Advances in mercury toxicology. Plenum Press, New York, pp 53–76 Yoshinaga J, Imai H, Nakazawa M, Suzuki T, Morita M (1990) Sci Total Environ 99: 125–135 Chittleborough G (1980) Sci Total Environ 14: 53–75