BS EN 16802:2016

This standard BS EN 16802:2016 Foodstuffs. Determination of elements and their chemical species. Determination of inorganic arsenic in foodstuffs of marine and plant origin by anion-exchange HPLC-ICP-MS is classified in these ICS categories:

• 67.050 General methods of tests and analysis for food products
• 67.060 Cereals, pulses and derived products
• 67.120.30 Fish and fishery products

This European Standard describes a procedure for the determination of inorganic arsenic in foodstuffs of marine and plant origin by anion-exchange HPLC-ICP-MS following waterbath extraction.

This method has been validated in an interlaboratory test on white rice, wholemeal rice, leek, blue mussels, fish muscle and seaweed with an inorganic arsenic mass fraction in the range 0,073 mg/kg to 10,3 mg/kg [1].