The Determination of Chemical Elements in Food (eBook)

Sergio Caroli, PHD, is a Research Director at the Department of Foodand Animal Safety, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (National Institute of Health), Rome, and Honorary Professor at the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest.

Preface.

Contributors.

SECTION 1: FUNDAMENTALS AND METHOD DEVELOPMENT.

1. Improvement in Pretreatment and Analysis with Spectrometric
Methods: A Typical Application to Routine Analysis.(K. Boutakhrit,
F. Bolle, J.M. Degroodt, and L. Goeyens)

2. Solubilization: Trends of Development in Analytical Atomic
Spectrometry for Elemental Food Analysis. (Henryk Matusiewicz)

3. Chemical Elements in Food and the Role of Atomic and Mass
Spectrometry. Advantages and Drawbacks of the Determination of
Selected Trace Elements in Foodstuffs by Atomic Absorption
Spectrometry. (Lars Jorhem and Joakim Engman)

4. High-Resolution Continuum Source AAs and its Application to
Food Analysis. (Bernhard Welz, Daniel L. G. Borges, and Uwe
Heitmann)

5. Determining the Geographical Origin of Foods: Considerations
when Designing Experimental Protocols and Choosing Analytical
Approaches. (John Lewis and Simon Hird)

6. Methods Validation for Food Analysis: Concepts and Use of
Statistical Techniques. (Joris Van Loco)

7. Demonstration of Measurement Capabilities by Means of
Interlaboratory Comparison Schemes for Trace Element Analysis in
Food. (Yetunde Aregbe, Piotr Robouch, and Thomas Prohaska)

SECTION 2: SELECTED APPLICATIONS.

8. Applications of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry
to Trace Element research and Control. (Francesco Cubadda)

9. Danish Monitoring System for Foods 1998-2003. Content of As,
Cd, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Se and Dietary Inake by Children and Adults.
(Erik H. Larsen, Inge Rokkjar, and Tue Christensen)

10. Trace Elements in the Total Diet Typical of Northern Italy.
(M. Bettinelli, S. Spezia, A. Gatti, A. Ronchi, C. Minoia, C.
Roggi, and G. Turconi)

11. Car Catalytic Converters and the Contamination of Food by
Platinum-Group Elements. (Chiara Frazzoli, Roberta Cammarone, and
Sergio Caroli)

12. Arsenic and Other Potentially Toxic Trace Elements in
Rice. (Chiara Frazzoli, Marilena D'Amato, Sergio Caroli, and Gyula
Zaray)

13. Total Analysis and Distribution of Trace Elements in Human,
Cow, and Formula Milk. (Rafael R. de la Flor St. Remy, Maria Luisa
Fernandez Sanchez, and Alfredo Sanz-Medel)

14. Use of Spectrochemical Methods for the Determination of
Metals in Fish and Other Seafood in Louisiana. (Joseph Sneddon)

15. Essential and Potentially Toxic Chemical Elements in
Beverages.

(Patricia Smichowksi and Daniel A. Batistoni)

SECTION 3: SPECIATION ANALYSIS.

16. Species-Specific Determination of Metal(loid)-containing
Food Additive sand Contaminants by Chromatography with ICP-MS
Detection. (A. Polatajko, B. Bouyssiere, and J.Szpunar)

17. Elemental Speciation in Human Milk and Substitute Food for
Newborns. (bernahrd Michalke, Maria Luisa Fernancez Sanchez, and
Alfredo Sanz-Medel)

18. Measurement of Total Arsenic and Arsenic Species in
Seafood By Q ICP-MS. (William A. Maher, Jason Kiry, and Frank
Krikowa)

19. Sample Preparation Prior to As- and Se-Speciation. (Mihaly
Dernovics and Peter Fodor)

20. Measurement of Total Se and Se Species in Seafood by
Quadrupole Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry,
Electrothermal Atomization Atomic Absorption Spectrometry, and
High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Inductively Coupled Plasma
Mass Spectrometry. (William A. Maher and Frank Kirkowa)

21. Application of ICP-MS for the Evaluation of Se Species in
Food Related Products and in Dietary Supplements. (Katarzyna
Wrobel, Kaximierz Wrobel, and Joseph A. Caruso)

22. Determination of Hg Species in Seafood. (Petra Krystek
and Rob Ritsema)

Author Index.

Subject Index.