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News Release from: Quantitech | Subject: Hydra-C application note
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 10 December 2007
Analysis of mercury in food and
beverages
Quantitech's application note on mercury in food shows how a variety of food products, when tested with the Hydra-C direct mercury analyser, showed excellent correlation with certified values
Mercury is a cumulative heavy metal poison which occurs in its elemental form, inorganically as salts, or organically as organomercury compounds Some foods contain significant levels of mercury; tuna for example may contain mercury at levels that are unhealthy for higher-risk groups such as expectant mothers and young children
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 6 Jun 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Other food products, less notorious for their mercury content, contain mercury at concentrations which may be worthy of evaluation.
Quantitech supplies the Leeman Labs Hydra-C (direct mercury analyser) which provides a fast, simple and convenient approach for the analysis of mercury without any sample pretreatment and without any hazardous chemical wastes.
Typical analysis times are about five minutes per sample.
Hydra-C employs EPA method 7473 which is approved for both laboratory and field analysis for mercury in solids and solutions using thermal decomposition, amalgamation and atomic absorption spectrophotometry.
Results were obtained without any sample treatment in about five minutes per sample.
The application note can be viewed on Quantitech's website.
The company will run a seminar on mercury analysis at the Open University in spring 2008; meanwhile, the company's Gareth Pearson is available to demonstrate the Hydra C, either in Milton Keynes or on-site in the UK or Ireland.
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