Lo Dico et al. 2015 - ICP-MS metals in infant formula
Lo Dico and colleagues validated an ICP-MS method for simultaneous determination of arsenic, copper, chromium, selenium, tin, cadmium, antimony, and lead in infant formulas after microwave-assisted digestion. The paper is routeable for infant-formula occurrence evidence because it includes infant formula sample results as part of method validation. It reports total elements and does not provide arsenic or chromium speciation.
Key numbers
- Target analytes: As, Cu, Cr, Se, Sn, Cd, Sb, and Pb.
- The method used microwave-assisted digestion followed by ICP-MS.
- Calibration and validation tables report concentration levels from 0.001 to 50 µg/L for standards and include LOD/LOQ information.
- The source includes infant formula sample measurements and recovery, repeatability, and within-laboratory reproducibility at three concentration levels.
Methods (brief)
The paper is primarily a method-validation source using infant formula matrices. It supports occurrence extraction only where sample-result tables are used, and it supports testing-method context more strongly than broad market benchmarking.
Implications
Certification: Useful for infant-formula source coverage and method validation, but standards-pool admission should require extraction of the actual sample table and basis conversion.
Courses: Good example of microwave digestion plus ICP-MS for infant formula.
App: Can provide infant-formula metals context after structured extraction.
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Verification notes
The same DOI was fetched under formula and infant-formula Cd, Pb, Sn, and tAs gaps. This page is the canonical page for those duplicate paths. Arsenic and chromium are total element measurements, not iAs or Cr(VI).
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