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Development of a Certified Reference Material (NMIJ CRM 7505-a) for the Determination of Trace Elements in Tea Leaves

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A certified reference material (CRM) for trace elements in tea leaves has been developed in National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ). The CRM was provided as a dry powder (<90 μm) after frozen pulverization of washed and dried fresh tea leaves from a tea plant farm in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Characterization of the property value for each element was carried out exclusively by NMIJ with at least two independent analytical methods, including inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), high-resolution (HR-) ICP-MS, isotope-dilution (ID-) ICP-MS, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), graphite-furnace atomic-absorption spectrometry (GF-AAS) and flame atomic-absorption spectrometry (FAAS). Property values were provided for 19 elements (Ca, K, Mg, P, Al, B, Ba, Cd, Cu, Fe, Li, Mn, Na, Ni, Pb, Rb, Sr, Zn and Co) and informative values for 18 elements (Ti, V, Cr, Y, and all of the lanthanides, except for Pm whose isotopes are exclusively radioactive). The concentration ranges of property values and informative values were from 1.59% (mass) of K to 0.0139 mg kg−1 of Cd and from 0.6 mg kg−1 of Ti to 0.0014 mg kg−1 of Lu, respectively. Combined relatively standard uncertainties of the property values were estimated by considering the uncertainties of the homogeneity, analytical methods, characterization, calibration standard, and dry-mass correction factor. The range of the relative combined standard uncertainties was from 1.5% of Mg and K to 4.1% of Cd.

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    Yanbei Zhu, Tomohiro Narukawa, Kazumi Inagaki, Takayoshi Kuroiwa & Koichi Chiba

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Zhu, Y., Narukawa, T., Inagaki, K. et al. Development of a Certified Reference Material (NMIJ CRM 7505-a) for the Determination of Trace Elements in Tea Leaves. ANAL. SCI. 27, 1149–1155 (2011). https://doi.org/10.2116/analsci.27.1149

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