Heavy Metals

– The laboratory is specialized in the detection of elements and heavy metals in foods (vegetables and fruits), food supplements, water, soil and environmental samples, in which heavy metals that form a danger to humans and the environment are analyzed, such as: Antimony (Sb), Cobalt (Co), Copper (Cu), Nickel (Ni), Lead (Pb), Mercury (Hg), Cadmium (Cd), Arsenic (As), Iron (Fe), Aluminum (Al), Selenium (Se), Chromium (Cr), Manganese (Mn), Zinc (Zn),Tin (Sn), Calcium (Ca), Sodium (Na), Barium (Ba), Potassium (K), Phosphorus (P), and Magnesium (Mg).

The Heavy Metals Laboratory provides the latest devices and technologies in the field of heavy metal detection to meet the needs of customers and to obtain fast and reliable results. These are the Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES) and the Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS) which is capable of detecting most elements of the periodic table at low concentrations of up to one part per trillion (ppt).

It is also capable of detecting more than one element in a single sample at the same time, which shortens the analysis time. In addition, the heavy metals laboratory is capable of determining manganese, cobalt, nickel, copper, chromium, aluminum, iron, zinc, arsenic, cadmium, antimony and lead in water simulations of plastics used in food packaging by using an induction plasma coupled with an ICP-MS detector.

Recently, the heavy metals laboratory has been equipped with an induction plasma coupled with a triple mass spectrometer detector coupled with an ion chromatography separation device IC-ICP MS/MS to separate and detect different valencies of heavy elements, which is an ideal method for determining different valencies of elements, which can be important in determining the safety or toxicity of the sample.