TY - JOUR A1 - Ogrinc, N. A1 - Rossi, A. M. A1 - Durbiano, F. A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Milavec, M. A1 - Bogozalec Kosir, A. A1 - Kakoulides, E. A1 - Ozer, H. A1 - Akcadag, F. A1 - Goenaga-Infante, H. A1 - Quaglia, M. A1 - Mallia, S. A1 - Umbricht, G. A1 - O'Connor, G. A1 - Guettler, B. T1 - Support for a European metrology network on food safety Food-MetNet JF - Measurement: Sensors N2 - This paper describes Food-MetNet, a coordinated preparatory initiative to establish the European Metrology Network on Food Safety (EMN-FS). Food-MetNet aims to establish a long-term ongoing dialogue between the metrology community and relevant stakeholders, in particular, European Union Reference Laboratories (EURLs), National Reference Laboratories (NRLs) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC). This dialogue is meant to support the collection of needs from stakeholders, the take-up of metrological research output and the development of the roadmaps needed to navigate future research. KW - Network KW - Metrology KW - Food KW - Safety KW - Stakeholders PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.measen.2021.100285 VL - 18 SP - 1 EP - 4 PB - Elsevier AN - OPUS4-53740 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Heyn, L. A1 - Jung, Christian T1 - Indoor exposure to airborne polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: A comparison of stir bar sorptive extraction and pump sampling JF - Engineering Reports N2 - Stir bar sorptive extraction (SBSE) was compared with standardized pump sampling regarding the prospects to assess airborne levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in indoor environments. A historic railway water tower, which will be preserved as a technical monument for museum purposes, was sampled with both approaches because the built-in insulationmaterial was suspected to release PAHs to the indoor air. The 16 PAHs on the US EPA list were quantified using gas chromatography with mass spectrometric detection in filters from pump sampling after solvent extraction and on SBSE devices after thermal desorption. SBSEwas seen to sample detectable PAHmasseswith excellent repeatability and a congener pattern largely similar to that observed with pump sampling. Congener patterns were however significantly different from that in the PAH source because release from the insulation material is largely triggered by the respective congener vapor pressures. Absolute masses in the ng range sampled by SBSE corresponded to airborne concentrations in the ng L−1 range determined by pump sampling. Principle differences between SBSE and pump sampling as well as prospects of SBSE as cost-effective and versatile complement of pump sampling are discussed. KW - Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons KW - Adsorption KW - Extraction KW - Indoor air PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-537427 DO - https://doi.org/10.1002/eng2.12419 VL - 3 IS - 12 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd. AN - OPUS4-53742 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dorgerloh, Ute A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Riedel, Juliane A1 - Hofmann, Andrea T1 - Comparison of gas- and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry for trace analysis of anilines in groundwater JF - International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry N2 - Three chromatographic procedures were investigated regarding their potential for the quantification of aniline and 19 of its methylated and chlorinated derivatives in groundwater. These methods were based on liquid-liquid-extraction in combination with gas chromatography and single quadrupole mass spectrometry (GC/MS) according to German standard DIN 38407-16:1999 and its extension using tandem mass spectrometry (GC/MS-MS), both following liquid-liquid extraction, and as third alternative the direct injection of the water sample into a liquid chromatograph coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MS-MS). Results were compared using fortified water and real-world contaminated groundwater used in an interlaboratory comparison. It could be shown that GC/MS and GC/MS-MS yielded results deviating less than 10% from each other while all three procedure displayed quantification results deviating less than 15% from the intercomparison reference values in case of each analyte in the concentration range between 1 and 45 µg L-1. Though GC/MS-MS displays a ten-fold higher sensitivity than single quadrupole GC/MS, the precision of both methods in the concentration range was similar. LC/MS-MS has the advantage of no further sample preparation due to the direct injection and leads for methylanilines and meta-, para- substituted chloroanilines to results sufficiently equivalent to the standardised GC/MS method. However, LC/MS-MS is not suitable for ortho-chloroaniline derivates due to significantly lower ion yields than meta- and para-substituted chloroanilines. KW - Interlaboratory comparison KW - Aniline KW - Chloroanilines KW - Methylanilines KW - Groundwater KW - GC/MS KW - GC/MS-MS KW - LC/MS-MS PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-535793 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/03067319.2021.1987423 VL - 103 IS - 19 SP - 8465 EP - 8477 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London AN - OPUS4-53579 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -