Data on the performance of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)-which is becoming widely used in the occupational health field for trace elemental analysis, is currently lacking-so in this hot article Kevin Ashley et al. conducted an experiment encompassing 20 labs across Europe, North America and Asia to determine interlaboratory precision estimates.
Read the details and their findings here – the article is free to access for four weeks:
Interlaboratory evaluation of trace element determination in workplace air filter samples by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Kevin Ashley, Stanley A. Shulman, Michael J. Brisson and Alan M. Howe
DOI: 10.1039/C1EM10695C
