PMID- 32729853 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210514 LR - 20210514 IS - 1759-9679 (Electronic) IS - 1759-9660 (Linking) VI - 12 IP - 29 DP - 2020 Aug 7 TI - Artificial neural network employment for element determination in Mugil cephalus by ICP OES in Pontal Bay, Brazil. PG - 3713-3721 LID - 10.1039/d0ay00799d [doi] AB - Fish are important sources of protein, making them very significant in the human diet. Although the consumption of this food is beneficial for health, it is essential that the product does not contain inorganic components above the limits recommended by the current legislation. Therefore, a method for determination of elements in fish (Mugil cephalus) samples was optimized. A simplex centroid mixture design with restriction was applied for optimization of the acid digestion of samples in an open system under reflux in order to evaluate the best ratio between the reagents HNO(3), H(2)O(2) and H(2)O. The results indicated that more intense analyte signals were obtained when a mixture containing 3.6 mL of HNO(3) (65% v/v), 0.4 mL of H(2)O(2) (30% v/v) and 6.0 mL of H(2)O was used. The accuracy of the method was assessed with a CRM of oyster tissue (NIST 1566b). The method presented relative standard deviations (RSDs) of 3.54%; 3.82%; 4.81% and 3.50% for Zn, Fe, Cu and S, respectively. The detection limits were 0.002 mg kg(-1) for Cu and Zn and 0.02 mg kg(-1) for Fe and S. The proposed method was applied for the determination of Zn, Fe, Cu and S in fish samples. A Kohonen Self-Organizing Map (KSOM) with K-means implementation was applied to better delimit the boundary between groups and the spatial and temporal influence on how concentrations of the chemical elements were perceived. To verify the separation, the Davies-Bouldin and Silhouette indices were used, obtaining 0.5374 and 0.8541, respectively, indicating satisfactory separation. FAU - Batista, Milana Aboboreira Simoes AU - Batista MAS AD - Departamento de Ciencias Exatas e Tecnologicas, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Campus Soane Nazare de Andrade, Km 16 BR-415, Ilheus, Bahia 45662-900, Brazil. erikgps@gmail.com. FAU - Santos, Luana Novaes AU - Santos LN FAU - Chagas, Bruna Cirineu AU - Chagas BC FAU - Lobo, Ivon Pinheiro AU - Lobo IP FAU - Novaes, Cleber Galvao AU - Novaes CG FAU - Guedes, Wesley Nascimento AU - Guedes WN FAU - de Jesus, Raildo Mota AU - de Jesus RM FAU - Amorim, Fabio Alan Carqueija AU - Amorim FAC FAU - Pacheco, Clissiane Soares Viana AU - Pacheco CSV FAU - Moreira, Luana Santos AU - Moreira LS FAU - da Silva, Erik Galvao Paranhos AU - da Silva EGP LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20200710 PL - England TA - Anal Methods JT - Analytical methods : advancing methods and applications JID - 101519733 RN - BBX060AN9V (Hydrogen Peroxide) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - *Bays MH - Brazil MH - Employment MH - Humans MH - *Hydrogen Peroxide MH - Neural Networks, Computer EDAT- 2020/07/31 06:00 MHDA- 2021/05/15 06:00 CRDT- 2020/07/31 06:00 PHST- 2020/07/31 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2020/07/31 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/05/15 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1039/d0ay00799d [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Anal Methods. 2020 Aug 7;12(29):3713-3721. doi: 10.1039/d0ay00799d. Epub 2020 Jul 10.