Feasibility of the development of reference materials for the detection of Ag nanoparticles in food: neat dispersions and spiked chicken meat

  • Ringo Grombe
  • , Günter M Allmaier
  • , Jean Charoud-Got
  • , Agnieszka Dudkiewicz
  • , Håkan Emteborg
  • , Thilo Hofmann
  • , Erik H. Larsen
  • , Angela Lehner
  • , Meritxell Llinas
  • , Katrin Loeschner
  • , Kristian Molhave
  • , Ruud Peters
  • , John Seghers
  • , Conxita Solans
  • , Frank von der Kammer
  • , Stephan Wagner
  • , Stefan Weigel
  • , Thomas P J Linsinger (Corresponding author)

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    Abstract



    The feasibility of producing colloidal silver nanoparticle reference materials and silver nanoparticle spiked reference matrix materials was investigated. Two concentrations of PVP-coated silver nanoparticle dispersions were evaluated and used to spike chicken meat, with the aim of producing a set of reference materials to support the development of analytical methods for the detection and quantification of nanoparticles in food. Aqueous silver nanoparticle (AgNP) dispersions were evaluated for their homogeneity of mass fraction and particle size and found sufficiently homogeneous to be used as reference materials. Stability studies at 4 °C, 18 °C and 60 °C demonstrated sufficient short- and long-term stability, although particle size decreases in a linear fashion at 60 °C. The AgNP dispersions were characterized for total Ag mass fraction by ICP-OES, dissolved Ag content by ultrafiltration-ICP-MS, as well as AgNP particle size by dynamic light scattering, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and gas-phase electrophoretic molecular mobility analysis. Chicken breasts were homogenized by cryo-milling and spiked with aqueous AgNP dispersions. Rapid freezing over liquid nitrogen resulted in homogeneous and stable materials. The spiked chicken materials were characterized for their total Ag mass fraction by neutron activation analysis and for the AgNP particle size by TEM and single-particle inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. The observed differences in particle sizes between the spiked chicken samples and the original silver dispersions indicate relevant matrix effects. The materials demonstrate that production and characterization of reference materials for the detection and quantification of silver nanoparticles in meat are feasible, but challenges especially in assessing stability and having sufficiently precise methods for assessment of homogeneity and stability remain.
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    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)3-16
    Number of pages14
    JournalAccrediation and Quality Assurance
    Volume20
    Issue number1
    Early online date14 Jan 2015
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2015

    Austrian Fields of Science 2012

    • 104023 Environmental chemistry
    • 104002 Analytical chemistry
    • 105904 Environmental research
    • 210006 Nanotechnology

    Keywords

    • Engineered nanoparticles
    • Food
    • Matrix reference materials
    • Reference material
    • Silver nanoparticles

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