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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 818, Issue -, Pages 23-31Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2014.01.060
Keywords
Arsenic; Speciation analysis; Microwave-enhanced extraction; Ion chromatography; Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry; Dietary supplement
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- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [0963450] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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A study was conducted to develop a microwave-enhanced extraction method for the determination of arsenic species in prenatal and children's dietary supplements prepared from plant materials. The method was optimized by evaluating the efficiency of various solutions previously used to extract arsenic from the types of plant materials used in the dietary supplement formulations. A multivitamin standard reference material (NIST SRM 3280) and a prenatal supplement sample were analyzed in the method optimization. The identified optimum conditions were 0.25 g of sample, 5 mL of 0.3 mol L-1 orthophosphoric acid (H3PO4) and microwave heating at 90 degrees C for 30 min. The extracted arsenic was speciated by cation exchange ion chromatography-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (IC-ICP-MS). The method detection limit (MDL) for the arsenic species was in the range 2-8 ng g(-1). Ten widely consumed prenatal and children's dietary supplements were analyzed using the optimized protocol. The supplements were found to have total arsenic in the concentration range 59-531 ng g(-1). The extraction procedure recovered 61-92% of the arsenic from the supplements. All the supplementary products were found to contain arsenite (As3+) and dimethylarsinic acid (DMA). Arsenate (As5+) was found in two of the supplements, and an unknown specie of arsenic was detected in one product. The results of the analysis were validated using mass balance by comparing the sum of the extracted and non-extracted arsenic with the total concentration of the element in the corresponding samples. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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