PMID- 36403811 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221207 LR - 20221207 IS - 1879-1298 (Electronic) IS - 0045-6535 (Linking) VI - 312 IP - Pt 1 DP - 2023 Jan TI - Variation of lead bioaccessibility in soil reference materials: Intra- and inter-laboratory assessments. PG - 137293 LID - S0045-6535(22)03786-9 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2022.137293 [doi] AB - Standard reference materials (SRMs) have been commonly used to perform quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) in soil total metal concentration analyses or bioaccessibility assessment. In this study, 10 experimenters from 4 laboratories determined bioaccessibility of lead (Pb) in 4 widely-used SRMs (NIST 2710a, NIST 2587, BGS 102, and GBW 07405). Based on the gastric phase (GP) of the unified BARGE bioaccessibility method (UBM) and the Solubility Bioavailability Research Consortium procedure (SBRC), Pb bioaccessibility in SRMs was compared within and between laboratories to assess their intra-laboratory repeatability and inter-laboratory reproducibility. Lead bioaccessibility was 14.1 +/- 2.44%-101 +/- 2.48% in the 4 SRMs. The values were in vivo validated based on a mouse model in previous studies (R(2) = 0.97-0.98), suggesting the reliability of Pb bioaccessibility data. Strong correlations were observed for Pb bioaccessibility among 7 experimenters (R(2) = 0.94-0.99) at the Nanjing University (NJU) laboratory and similar strong correlations were also found between each two of the 4 laboratories (R(2) = 0.94-0.98), illustrating consistency in intra- and inter-laboratory performance. The intra-laboratory repeatability and inter-laboratory reproducibility were generally acceptable with relative standard deviations (RSDs) of Pb bioaccessibility being