The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) mission is to protect the public health by ensuring the safety and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices and by ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The Regional Field Office, Northeast Region, in Jamaica, NY includes the elemental analysis lab, which monitors the amounts of toxic elements in foods. Through the inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometric technique the determination of elements such as arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead, and mercury is performed using a microwave assisted digestion. The details of the experimental procedure and cases studies will be presented.

Elemental analysis of food using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Northeast Region laboratories in Jamaica, NY

254th National Meeting (2017)

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