scholarly journals Chemometric Analysis of Elemental Fingerprints for GE Authentication of Multiple Geographical Origins

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Xu ◽  
Qiong Shi ◽  
Si-Min Yan ◽  
Hai-Yan Fu ◽  
Shunping Xie ◽  
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The feasibility of combining elemental fingerprints and chemical pattern recognition methods for authentication of the geographical origins of a Chinese herb, Gastrodia elata BI. (GE), was studied in this paper. A total of 210 GE samples were collected from 7 different producing areas. The levels of 15 mineral elements in GE, including Zn, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Ca, Mg, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Sr, Fe, Na, and K, were determined using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Using the autoscaled data of elemental fingerprints and partial least-squares discriminant analysis (PLSDA), two chemometrics strategies for multiclass classifications, One-Versus-Rest (OVR) and One-Versus-One (OVO), were studied and compared in discrimination of GE geographical origins. As a result, OVR-PLSDA and OVO-PLSDA could achieve the classification accuracy of 0.672 and 0.925, respectively. The results indicate that mineral elemental fingerprints coupled with chemometrics can provide a useful alternative method for simultaneous discrimination of multiple GE geographical origins.

2005 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
pp. 1469-1484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohanakrishna R Mudiam ◽  
Sanjukta A Kumar ◽  
Sudhershanan Mahadevan ◽  
Priyankar Ghosh ◽  
Rajendra K Sarin ◽  
...  

Abstract An analytical method based on inductively coupled plasma/mass spectrometry (ICP/MS) was developed for the determination of 28 mineral elements (Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Sr, Cd, Ag, Ba, Pb, Bi Y, La, Ce, Nd, Pr, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, and Lu) in Indian opium samples. The detection limits were found to be in the range of 0.0008–0.45 ng/mL. The recoveries of spiked samples for each element were found to be in the range of 83–106%, with a precision of less than 9%. A total of 124 opium samples from India were analyzed for the distribution pattern of the 28 mineral elements. Quantitative elemental data were subjected to chemometric analysis in order to determine an optimal classifier to evaluate the source of Indian opium. The study indicated that mineral elements might not be the suitable discriminators for the discrimination of licit opium-growing divisions of India. However, the methodology developed and the analytical data on elemental profile may find important forensic application in discriminating Indian opium with that of licit and illicit opium originating from different geographical regions of world.


Author(s):  
Emanuela BADEA ◽  
Gheorghe Valentin GORAN ◽  
Cristina ȚOCA ◽  
Victor CRIVINEANU

Neoplasms involve abnormal tissue growths developing in an uncoordinated, persistent manner, faster than adjacent normal tissues. Several researchers have studied the possible implications of heavy metals and mineral levels on human mammary neoplasms using hair analysis. The study’s objective was to assess the levels of heavy metals and other mineral elements in dogs suffering from mammary neoplasms. Hair samples were analyzed by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). All analyzed elements registered higher levels in clinically healthy dogs. The interaction between health status and keeping conditions significantly influenced the levels of Al, Ca, Fe, Mg, Ni, Co, Pb, and V. Concurrently, dogs with mammary neoplasms living outdoors registered the highest levels for most minerals, compared to dogs with mammary neoplasms living indoors, suggesting a possible implication of pollution.


2020 ◽  
Vol 185 ◽  
pp. 04019
Author(s):  
Li Fenglin ◽  
Li Li ◽  
Jiang Xiaokun ◽  
Liang Yan ◽  
Liu Hengwei

The objective of this study was to investigate the content of main mineral elements in cultivated fruiting bodies of Cordyceps militaris. Microwave digestion was used to pretreat Cordyceps militaris samples, and the content of seven mineral elements in Cordyceps militaris was determined by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The results showed that the content of arsenic (As), lead (Pb) , cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu) , silver (Ag), zinc (Zn), and manganese (Mn) in cultivated fruiting bodies of Cordyceps militaris, respectively, is 0.0047 mg/kg, 0.22 mg/kg, 0.0041 mg/kg, 9.1 mg/kg, 0.024mg/kg, 5.2mg/kg, and 1.6 mg/kg. The content of heavy metals such as Pb, Cd and As is within the limits of Chinese national food safety standard. The method used in this study has the advantages of high sensitivity, fast analysis speed, and good reproducibility. It can be used for the determination of mineral elements in cultivated fruiting bodies of Cordyceps militaris.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Strenge ◽  
Carsten Engelhard

<p>The article demonstrates the importance of using a suitable approach to compensate for dead time relate count losses (a certain measurement artefact) whenever short, but potentially strong transient signals are to be analysed using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). Findings strongly support the theory that inadequate time resolution, and therefore insufficient compensation for these count losses, is one of the main reasons for size underestimation observed when analysing inorganic nanoparticles using ICP-MS, a topic still controversially discussed.</p>


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