PMID- 21790489 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20111115 LR - 20131121 IS - 1944-0057 (Electronic) IS - 1944-0057 (Linking) VI - 28 IP - 8 DP - 2011 Aug TI - Determination of silver in nano-plastic food packaging by microwave digestion coupled with inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry or inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. PG - 1123-8 LID - 10.1080/19440049.2011.580013 [doi] AB - The detection of silver in nano-plastic food packaging by microwave digestion coupled with either inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) or inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) was investigated. Microwave digestion was optimised by trialling different acid mixtures. Both ICP-AES and ICP-MS showed good reproducibility, repeatability and recovery. For ICP-AES the limit of detection of the method (LODm) was 25.0 microg g(-1), the limit of detection of the instrument (LODi) was 30.0 ng ml(-1), the linear range was 0.10-10.0 microg ml(-1). The average recoveries for blank samples spiked with silver at 100, 250 and 500 microg g(-1) ranged from 82.53% to 87.60%, and the relative standard deviations (RSDs) were from 1.79% to 8.30%. For ICP-MS analysis the LODm was 0.75 microg g(-1), the LODi was 0.04 ng ml(-1), the linear range was 0.20-500.0 ng ml(-1), the RSDs were 2.26-4.79%, and the recoveries were 78.09-92.72% (spiked concentrations of 2.5, 5.0 and 10.0 microg g(-1)). These results indicate that the proposed method could be employed to analyse silver in nano-plastic food packaging. FAU - Lin, Q-B AU - Lin QB AD - Institute of Applied Chemistry, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China. qblin@sxu.edu.cn FAU - Li, B AU - Li B FAU - Song, H AU - Song H FAU - Wu, H-J AU - Wu HJ LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20110622 PL - England TA - Food Addit Contam Part A Chem Anal Control Expo Risk Assess JT - Food additives & contaminants. Part A, Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment JID - 101485040 RN - 3M4G523W1G (Silver) SB - IM MH - *Food Packaging MH - Limit of Detection MH - Microwaves MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Silver/*analysis MH - Spectrum Analysis/*methods EDAT- 2011/07/28 06:00 MHDA- 2011/11/16 06:00 CRDT- 2011/07/28 06:00 PHST- 2011/07/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/07/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2011/11/16 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1080/19440049.2011.580013 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Food Addit Contam Part A Chem Anal Control Expo Risk Assess. 2011 Aug;28(8):1123-8. doi: 10.1080/19440049.2011.580013. Epub 2011 Jun 22.