The certified
reference samples analyzed with IC are reported in Table 2.
With HDP, diet A, and diet E we have tried to cover an expected
area in food samples. An animal whole blood with a large
difference in amounts for different metals was analyzed. In the
certified blood sample, which contains a very high amount of
iron, there were difficulties in measuring manganese. Coelution
is the reason. Possible applications of this method are shown
in Table 2 and Figure 3. Depending on which mineral is of
interest, one can either concentrate or dilute the sample. The
certified reference samples with a great difference in mineral
content were used to evaluate the analytical method. Despite
this variance in mineral content the results for the reference
samples were in agreement with the certified values.