Certified reference materials for the quality control of trace elements in plants: white clover (CRM 402)

✍ Scribed by Philippe Quevauviller; Kristien Vercoutere; Bernard Griepink

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 639 KB
• Volume: 259
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2670
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-2670(92)85377-i

✦ Synopsis

Analyses of plants are routmely performed by a number of organizations to determme elements of nutntlve Importance and of potential toxlaty, e g , heavy metals To control the quahty of such determmatlons, the Commumty Bureau of Reference has produced a senes of reference matenals certlfled for a Hrlde vanety of elements which are summarmd tn this paper The last plant matenal produced 1s a white clover (CRM 402), certlfled for tts contents of As, Co, MO and Se This material was collected on a field wtth Se-nch and poorly dramed sods, carefully prepared and Its homogeneity and long-term stab&y were venfied Thus paper reports the certlficatlon work performed