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Determination of the Non-metallic Elements in Herbal Tea by Inductively Coupled Plasma Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Journal

BIOLOGICAL TRACE ELEMENT RESEARCH
Volume 199, Issue 2, Pages 769-778

Publisher

SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1007/s12011-020-02175-y

Keywords

ICP-MS; MS; Herbal tea; Non-metallic elements; Mass shift; On-mass

Funding

  1. Provincial Key Project of Hunan Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine [202092]
  2. National key RAMP
  3. D program of China [2018YFC1703400, 2018YFC1704400]
  4. Training Program for Excellent Young Innovators of Changsha [kq1802017]
  5. Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing [cstc2019jcyj-msxmX0705]

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The study investigated the feasibility of using ICP-MS/MS to determine non-metallic elements in herbal tea, with O-2 and H-2 as reaction gases in MS/MS mode. The developed method successfully analyzed 20 herbal teas, showing a range of values for Si, P, S, Cl, Br, and I, indicating the potential health benefits of drinking herbal tea containing essential non-metallic elements.
The feasibility of using inductively coupled plasma tandem mass spectrometry (ICP-MS/MS) to overcome spectral overlaps in the determination of non-metallic elements was investigated. The contents of Si, P, S, Cl, Br, and I in herbal tea were determined by using ICP-MS/MS after microwave digestion. In the MS/MS mode, O-2 and H-2 were consecutively used as reaction gases. Low background equivalent concentration (BEC) and limit of detection (LOD) of analytes were obtained when using O-2 mass shift, H-2 mass shift, and H-2 on-mass methods. The LODs for Si, P, S, Cl, Br, and I were 0.41, 0.048, 0.34, 0.76, 0.055, and 0.007 mu g L-1, respectively. Standard reference materials NIST SRM 1515 (apple leaves) and NIST SRM 1547 (peach leaves) were used to evaluate the accuracy of the analytical method. The developed method was used to analyze 20 herbal teas. The ranges of values for Si, P, S, Cl, Br, and I in herbal tea were 236-4100, 1830-4360, 1290-3850, 335-4620, 0.86-8.21, and 0.091-0.65 mu g g(-1), respectively. The results showed that several non-metallic elements essential for the human body might be obtained by drinking herbal tea.

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