FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2012, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (24): 280-282.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201224059

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Determination of Seven Metal Elements in Eight Cereal Grains by Microwave Digestion Coupled with ICP-AES

ZHANG Yu-fen1,YU Xiu-ying2,QI Jing-kai3   

  1. 1. Center of Analysis, Inner Mongolia University of Nationalities, Tongliao 028043, China;2. College of Agriculture, Inner Mongolia University of Nationalities, Tongliao 028043, China;3. College of Life Science, Inner Mongolia University of Nationalities, Tongliao 028043, China
  • Received:2011-09-20 Revised:2012-10-29 Online:2012-12-25 Published:2012-12-12

Abstract: The contents of Hg, Pb, Cd, As, Cu, Sn and Al in 8 cereal grains were simultaneously determined by ICP-AES after microwave digestion with HNO3-H2O2 (5:1, V/V). Under optimum conditions, average spike recoveries of all the metal elements in 0.5 g of rice ranged from 96.85% to 107.16%, with RSDs between 0.96% and 3.64%. The limits of detection of this method for them ranged from 2.04 µg/L to 14.09 µg/L. This method was simple, quick, accurate, precise and suitable for the simultaneous determination of these elements in cereal grains.

Key words: cereal grains, microwave digestion, inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry, element analysis

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