Shimadzu Review Vol.81[3・4](2024)
Realizing Health for People and the Planet through Food and Sustainable Food and Agriculture Industries

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Shimadzu Review 81[3・4] (2024)

Abstract

The food we consume everyday contains useful minerals essential for our health but can also contain harmful elements. Both types of element can be measured by a variety of analytical techniques, but inductively coupled plasma
mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) has recently come to prominence due to its ability to measure multiple elements in a single analysis, including beneficial minerals and trace levels of harmful elements. Coupling ICP-MS with liquid chromatography (LC-ICP-MS) also allows for the highly sensitive measurement of harmful elements in each of their elemental species. This article successfully validates analytical methods that use these techniques to quantify multiple elements in food samples in a single analysis.

¹Solutions Center of Excellence, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division, Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan
²Spectro Business Unit, Analytical & Measuring Instruments Division, Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto, Japan

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