Performance of laboratories in speciation analysis in seafood - Case of methylmercury and inorganic arsenic

Food Control

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1928-1934

  Baer, Ines ^a   Baxter, Malcolm ^b   Devesa, Vicenta ^c   Vélez, Dinoraz ^c   Raber, Georg ^d   Rubio, Roser ^e   Llorente Mirandes, Toni ^e   Sloth, Jens J ^f   Robouch, Piotr ^a   de la Calle, Beatriz ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTO DE AGROQUÍMICA Y TECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CSIC   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

IMEP; Inorganic arsenic; Interlaboratory comparison; Methylmercury; Seafood; Speciation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960142981     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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