Application of trace element and stable isotope signatures to determine the provenance of tea (Camellia sinensis) samples

Food Chemistry

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 921-926

  Pilgrim, Tamara S ^a   Watling, R John ^a   Grice, Kliti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Curtin University of Technology Perth Centre for Applied Organic Geochemistry   (Australia)

Author keywords

Camellia sinensis; Discriminant analysis; Forensic science; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Isotope; Isotope ratio mass spectrometry; Origin; Provenance; Tea; Trace elements

Indexed keywords

BARIUM 138; CADMIUM 111; CARBON 13; CERIUM 140; CESIUM 133; CHROMIUM 53; COBALT; COPPER 65; EUROPIUM 153; GALLIUM 71; LANTHANUM 139; LEAD 209; NICKEL 60; NIOBIUM 93; PRASEODYMIUM 141; RUBIDIUM 85; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM 88; THALLIUM 203; TITANIUM 49; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; YTTRIUM 89;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); FOOD ANALYSIS; FORGERY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TEA;

CAMELLIA SINENSIS;

EID: 70349297589     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2008.08.077     Document Type: Article

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