TY - JOUR A1 - Köppen, Robert A1 - Koch, Matthias A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - Überwachung pflanzlicher Rohstoffe - Trichothecen-Analytik in Getreide und Getreideerzeugnissen JF - Deutsche Lebensmittel-Rundschau PY - 2010 SN - 0012-0413 SN - 1869-2214 VL - 106 IS - DLR Spezial 2 SP - 66 EP - 72A PB - Wiss. Verl.-Ges. CY - Stuttgart AN - OPUS4-22206 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nehls, Irene A1 - Schultze, Karin A1 - Win, Tin A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Bremser, Wolfram T1 - Zertifiziertes Referenzmaterial: BAM-U007 Organochlorpestizide in Boden T2 - Tag der Chemie, TU Berlin T2 - Tag der Chemie, TU Berlin CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2002-12-04 PY - 2002 AN - OPUS4-5847 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nehls, Irene A1 - Win, Tin A1 - Schultze, Karin A1 - Bremser, Wolfram T1 - Zertifiziertes Referenzmaterial "BAM-U007" - Organochlorpestizide in Boden T2 - "Tag der Chemie", FU Berlin T2 - "Tag der Chemie", FU Berlin CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2001-11-07 PY - 2001 AN - OPUS4-5831 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Schultze, Karin A1 - Nehls, Irene A1 - Bremser, Wolfram A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Win, Tin T1 - Zertifiziertes Referenzmaterial "BAM-U007" - Organochlorpestizide in Boden T2 - Proceedings of the conference ANAKON T2 - ANAKON 2001 CY - Konstanz, Germany DA - 2001-04-04 PY - 2001 SP - 1(?) AN - OPUS4-1314 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nehls, Irene A1 - Koch, Matthias T1 - Zertifizierte Referenzmaterialien für die Mineralölanalytik - Bedeutung für die Kalibrierung JF - GIT : Labor-Fachzeitschrift KW - Referenzmaterialien PY - 2008 SN - 0016-3538 VL - 8 SP - 718 EP - 719 PB - GIT-Verlag CY - Darmstadt AN - OPUS4-17815 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Siegel, David A1 - Koch, Matthias A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - Wiederentdeckung eines alten Bekannten - 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazin in der Umweltanalytik JF - GIT : Labor-Fachzeitschrift KW - Carbonyle KW - Derivatisierung KW - 2,4-Dinitrophenylhydrazin KW - Luft KW - Trinkwasser KW - PET PY - 2009 SN - 0016-3538 IS - Sonderausgabe: Umweltanalytik 2008 SP - 226 EP - 228 PB - GIT-Verlag CY - Darmstadt AN - OPUS4-18615 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dorgerloh, Ute A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - Volatile hydrocarbons in contaminated soil: Robustness of fractional quantification using headspace gas chromatography-mass-spectrometry JF - Soil and sediment contamination N2 - Fuel contamination of soils display complex and variable hydrocarbon mixtures with different volatility and toxicity characteristics. A recently suggested headspace procedure for the structure-based quantification of volatile hydrocarbons is evaluated regarding repeatability, reproducibility, and practical robustness. Three aliphatic and three aromatic fractions covering the boiling range between 69 and 216°C were defined as summation parameters by their respective equivalent carbon number ranges. A standard mixture of 35 aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons was used for calibration on basis of selected mass fragments specific for the aliphatics and aromatics, respectively. Two standard soils were fortified with the standard mixture or different fuels, respectively, and submitted to the analytical procedure. Limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) were for all fractions lower than 0.1 and 0.3 mg/kg, respectively. Analyte recovery was linear up to between 20 and 110 mg hydrocarbons/kg soil depending on the fraction. Hydrocarbon recovery ranged between 80% and 110% depending on the fraction and the repeatability was typically better than 10%. Finally, the impact of extraction solvent variation, column solid-phase polarity, and alternative summation of fractions were investigated. The procedure was applied to liner samples taken from a site contaminated with aviation fuel and its practicability is discussed. KW - Gasoline KW - Contaminated site KW - Equivalent carbon number KW - Fuel KW - Static headspace PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/15320383.2018.1418287 SN - 1532-0383 SN - 1549-7887 VL - 27 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 12 PB - Taylor & Francis AN - OPUS4-43889 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nehls, Irene A1 - Kuhnhardt, Claus T1 - Untersuchungen zur Homogenität und Stabilität von Referenzmaterialien zur Bestimmung von Schwefel in der Matrix Öl T2 - DGMK-Analytikertreffen T2 - DGMK-Analytikertreffen 2000 CY - Hamburg, Deutschland DA - 2000-11-13 PY - 2000 CY - Hamburg AN - OPUS4-1030 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kuhlich, Paul A1 - Göstl, Robert A1 - Teichert, Philip A1 - Piechotta, Christian A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - Transformations of polycyclic musks AHTN and HHCB upon disinfection with hypochlorite: two new chlorinated disinfection by-products (CDBP) of AHTN and a possible source for HHCB-lactone JF - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry N2 - In this work, the behavior of the polycyclic musks 6-acetyl-1,1,2,4,4,7-hexamethyltetraline (AHTN) and 1,3,4,6,7,8-hexahydro-4,6,6,7,8,8-hexamethylcyclopenta- γ-2-benzopyran (HHCB) was investigated upon disinfection by using sodium hypochlorite as disinfectant in a model disinfection basin in order to find new disinfection byproducts (DBP). In the case of AHTN, the carboxylic acid 3,5,5,6,8,8-hexamethyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydronaphthalene-2- carboxylic acid (AHTN-COOH) was generated by a haloform reaction, being the origin for two new chlorinated DBPs. In the case of HHCB, disinfection via hypochlorite led to the HHCB-lactone. All reaction products and intermediates were synthesized and isolated. The relevant degradation mechanisms are discussed in detail. KW - Musk KW - AHTN KW - HHCB KW - HHCB-lactone KW - Chlorination KW - Disinfection PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-011-4674-3 SN - 1618-2642 SN - 1618-2650 VL - 399 IS - 10 SP - 3579 EP - 3588 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-23622 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Esslinger, Susanne A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Jung, Christian A1 - Schröter-Kermani, C. A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - Time courses of HBCD levels and enantiomeric signatures in herring gull eggs from the German coast T2 - Dioxin 2010 - 30th International symposium on halogenated persistent organic pollutants (Proceedings) T2 - Dioxin 2010 - 30th International symposium on halogenated persistent organic pollutants CY - San Antonio, TX, USA DA - 2010-09-12 PY - 2010 UR - http://www.dioxin20xx.org/pdfs/2010/10-1112.pdf N1 - Serientitel: Organohalogen Compounds – Series title: Organohalogen Compounds VL - 72 SP - 255 EP - 258 AN - OPUS4-23167 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dorgerloh, Ute A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Theißen, H. A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - The quantification of hydrogen and methane in contaminated groundwater: validation of robust procedures for sampling and quantification JF - Journal of environmental monitoring N2 - A number of currently recommended sampling techniques for the determination of hydrogen in contaminated groundwater were compared regarding the practical proficiency in field campaigns. Key characteristics of appropriate sampling procedures are reproducibility of results, robustness against varying field conditions such as hydrostatic pressure, aquifer flow, and biological activity. Laboratory set-ups were used to investigate the most promising techniques. Bubble stripping with gas sampling bulbs yielded reproducible recovery of hydrogen and methane which could be verified for groundwater sampled in two field campaigns. The methane content of the groundwater was confirmed by analysis of directly pumped samples thus supporting the trueness of the stripping results. Laboratory set-ups and field campaigns revealed that bubble stripping of hydrogen may be restricted to the type of used pump. Concentrations of dissolved hydrogen after bubble stripping with an electrically driven submersible pump were about one order of magnitude higher than those obtained from diffusion sampling. The gas chromatographic determination for hydrogen and methane requires manual injection of gas samples and detection by a pulsed discharge detector (PDD) and allows limits of quantification of 3 nM dissolved hydrogen and 1 µg L-1 dissolved methane in groundwater. The combined standard uncertainty of the bubble stripping and GC/PDD quantification of hydrogen in field samples was 7% at 7.8 nM and 18% for 78 nM. PY - 2010 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c0em00091d SN - 1464-0325 SN - 1464-0333 VL - 12 IS - 10 SP - 1876 EP - 1884 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry CY - Cambridge AN - OPUS4-22176 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Buge, Hans-Gerhard A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - The preparation and characterization of solid matrix reference materials for the trace analysis of organic environmental pollutants - relevant aspects of quality management T2 - Proceedings of CENAM N2 - Feste Referenzmaterialien für die Spurenanalytik umweltrelevanter organischer Schadstoffe erfordern aufgrund der geringen thermischen Belastbarkeit der Analyten besondere Aufarbeitungsstrategien für die Herstellung repräsentativer Teilproben. Das in der Fachgruppe I.2 seit 1994 für diesen Zweck systematisch aufgebaute technologische Instrumentarium wird vorgestellt, und das im Laufe der Jahre angesammelte Know How wird anhand von Beispielen vermittelt. Das im Laboratorium I.21 entwickelte Qualitätssystem für eine optimale Logistik der Arbeitsabläufe der Probenherstellung und -verwaltung sowie für eine bedarfsgerechte Charakterisierung der Materialien wird ausführlich erläutert. Bezüglich der Verwendung der Referenzmaterialien wird herausgestellt, daß es zwei gleichberechtigte Anwendungsrichtungen gibt: die interne Qualitätskontrolle mit zertifizierten Referenzmaterialien (ZRM, z.B. für die Methodenvalidierung) und die externe Qualitätskontrolle (Proficiency Testing = Kompetenzbewertung von Prüflaboratorien). Referenzmaterialien für das Proficiency Testing, die im Umweltbereich in viel größeren Stückzahlen umgesetzt werden können als ZRM, weisen bezüglich Homogenität und Charakterisierung die gleichen Qualitätskriterien wie ZRM auf. Diese Materialien haben - auch im internationalen Maßstab - stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Ein englisches Abstract gibt es nicht, aber eine Grobgliederung zur Vortragsankündigung: This lecture includes: · the technological and logistical aspects of reference material preparation and sub-sampling and subsequent sample management, · appropriate measurement strategies for homogeneity and stability studies, · the use of relevant statistical tests to evaluate those measurement data, · the organisation of interlaboratory studies based on traceable measurements T2 - CENAM CY - Querétaro, Mexico DA - 2002-03-01 PY - 2002 AN - OPUS4-1612 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mönch, Bettina A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Jung, Christian A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - The homogeneity testing of EtG in hair reference materials: A high-throughput procedure using GC-NCI-MS JF - Forensic science international N2 - The validation of a robust quantification procedure for EtG in hair using GC–NCI–MS is presented. Aqueous extraction is followed by complete lyophylization of the extract and derivatization with pentafluoropropionic anhydride (PFPA) under controlled temperature and duration. Clean-up of extracts was dispensable and standard single quadrupole MS displayed sufficient selectivity and sensitivity. The method displayed a wide linearity range and enabled LOD of 0.68 pg/mg, LOQ of 2.4 pg/mg, and precision below 8.12%. Since EtG was seen to display prolonged stability in the aqueous extracts and after derivatization with PFPA this straightforward procedure allows a routine throughput of large quantities of samples with little proneness to procedural scatter of results. The method was applied to demonstrate the homogeneity of two hair reference materials with mean EtG contents of 8.48 pg/mg and 22.0 pg/mg. Aside from the application in homogeneity studies of hair reference materials predominantly in the concentration range of 10–50 pg/mg the method was also designed for daily routine quantification of real-world sample with regard to drinking behavior assessment. KW - Extraction KW - Derivatization KW - High-throughput analysis KW - Reference materials KW - Homogeneity KW - Measurement uncertainty PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2013.01.018 SN - 0379-0738 SN - 1872-6283 VL - 226 IS - 1-3 SP - 202 EP - 207 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] AN - OPUS4-27998 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Buge, Hans-Gerhard A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - The determination of adsorbable organically bound halogens (AOX) in soil: interlaboratory comparisons and reference materials JF - Accreditation and quality assurance N2 - The interlaboratory variability in the quantification of adsorbable organically bound halogens (AOX) in industrially contaminated soil is presented. Three consecutive rounds of a proficiency testing scheme, in which between 88 and 119 routine laboratories participated, yielded relative reproducibility standard deviations between 7 and 20% at AOX contents between 10.9 and 268 mg kg-1. Nineteen laboratories with established proficiency were invited to participate in the certification of the AOX content in three soil reference materials meant for the internal quality control in analytical laboratories. The certified values are (1349 ± 59) mg kg-1, (80 ± 7) mg kg-1 and (102 ± 8) mg kg-1, respectively. KW - Certified reference materials KW - European Reference Material KW - Proficiency testing KW - Organohalogen compounds KW - Summation parameter PY - 2007 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00769-007-0308-z SN - 0949-1775 SN - 1432-0517 VL - 12 IS - 12 SP - 647 EP - 651 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-16670 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Esslinger, Susanne A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Jung, Christian A1 - Schröter-Kermani, C. A1 - Bremser, Wolfram A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - Temporal trend (1988-2008) of hexabromocyclododecane enantiomers in herring gull eggs from the german coastal region JF - Chemosphere N2 - Levels of α-, β-, and γ-hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) were determined in pooled eggs from herring gulls (Larus argentatus) sampled on three bird sanctuaries near the German North Sea coast between 1988 and 2008 (Mellum and Trischen) and the German Baltic Sea coast between 1998 and 2008 (Heuwiese) and archived by the German Environmental Specimen Bank. Pressurized fluid extraction, gel permeation chromatography, and LC–MS/MS using 13C12-labelled isotope standards and a chiral column were applied. α-HBCD was the dominating diastereomer and ranged between 3.7 and 107 ng g-1 lw while β- and γ-HBCD were throughout close to LOQ. The highest α-HBCD concentration was found in eggs from Mellum sampled in the year 2000. Interestingly, HBCD in eggs from the three islands displayed similar time courses with levels increasing to a peak contamination around 2000 and decreasing levels ever since. Chiral signatures of α-HBCD in eggs differed among the islands but indicated a preferential enrichment of the first eluting enantiomer (-)-α-HBCD. KW - Brominated flame retardant KW - Chiral separation KW - HPLC-ESI-MS/MS KW - Enantiomer-specific bioaccumulation PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemosphere.2010.12.047 SN - 0045-6535 SN - 0366-7111 VL - 83 IS - 2 SP - 161 EP - 167 PB - Elsevier Science CY - Kidlington, Oxford AN - OPUS4-23351 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lischka, Susanne A1 - Körte, F. A1 - Faust, R. A1 - Nehls, Irene A1 - Piechotta, Christian T1 - Synthesis, characterization and application of a two-fold 13C-labeled calibration standard for the analysis of arsenobetaine using HPLC-ESI-MS/MS without high resolution mass spectrometry JF - Talanta N2 - A procedure has been developed for the determination of arsenobetaine in fish matrix by HPLC–ESI-MS/MS. Hereby (trimethylarsonium)-1,2-13C-acetate (arsenobetaine) is used as internal calibration standard. Arsenobetaine was determined in a fish material (Sea Bass) with an expanded uncertainty of 3.8%. KW - Arsenobetaine KW - ESI-MS/MS KW - Isotopic labeled KW - 13C PY - 2011 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2011.07.047 SN - 0039-9140 VL - 85 IS - 4 SP - 1996 EP - 1999 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-25163 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - Standard-Referenzmaterialien als Instrumente der Qualitätssicherung T2 - Kolloquium im Institut für Spektrochemie und Angewandte Spektroskopie (ISAS) in Dortmund auf Einladung von Herrn Dr. Korte T2 - Kolloquium im Institut für Spektrochemie und Angewandte Spektroskopie (ISAS) in Dortmund auf Einladung von Herrn Dr. Korte CY - Dortmund, Germany DA - 2004-03-09 PY - 2004 AN - OPUS4-5472 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Nehls, Irene A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Win, Tin A1 - Bremser, Wolfram T1 - Stabilitätsuntersuchungen an einem neuen Referenzmaterial: Nitroaromaten in Boden T2 - Analytica Conference 2002 T2 - Analytica Conference 2002 CY - Munich, Germany DA - 2002-04-23 PY - 2002 AN - OPUS4-5846 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ammann, Dominic A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - Stability of ethyl glucuronide in hair reference materials after accelerated aging JF - Forensic science international N2 - Two different hair reference materials, one produced from authentic hair displaying an ethyl glucuronide (EtG) content of about 25 pg/mg and one obtained by fortification of blank hair to an EtG level of 85 pg/mg were submitted to accelerated aging between 4 degrees C and 60 degrees C for periods between one and 24 months. Subsequently, the EtG content was determined in the aged samples and untreated reference samples stored at -22 degrees C under repeatability conditions following the so-called isochronous approach. The EtG content remained stable even at 40 degrees C for 24 months and at 60 degrees C over six months. This is in contrast to many organic analytes contained in trace concentrations in diverse matrices. A slight but significant increase of the recovered EtG in case of authentic hair samples having been exposed for 24 months between 4 degrees C and 60 degrees C may be due to a temperature-driven process that allows increased recoveries of the physiologically embedded EtG. KW - Alcohol marker KW - Micropulverization KW - HPLC-MS/MS KW - Fortification KW - Long term stability PY - 2015 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.09.015 SN - 0379-0738 SN - 1872-6283 VL - 257 SP - 337 EP - 340 PB - Elsevier Ireland Ldt. CY - Amsterdam [u.a.] AN - OPUS4-34940 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Becker, Roland A1 - Dorgerloh, Ute A1 - Theißen, H. A1 - Nehls, Irene T1 - Stabilisation of groundwater samples for the quantification of organic trace pollutants JF - Environmental science : processes & impacts N2 - The concentration of contaminants in groundwater samples can be decreased by degradation in the time course between field sampling and quantification in the laboratory, especially in samples from sites where degradation activity is enhanced by remediation measures. The sampling sites covered a variety of priority organic pollutants such as volatile aromatic and chlorinated compounds, phenols and petroleum hydrocarbons and different remediation strategies such as anaerobic and aerobic microbial in situ degradation, in situ chemical oxidation, and on-site purification with biological treatment. The stability of the contaminants' concentration was investigated over a time range of several hours without cooling in the autosampler of the analytical equipment (short term) and over several days of storage until analysis (long term). A number of stabilisation techniques suggested in international standards ISO 5667-3:2013 and ASTM D6517:2000 were compared both with regard to short term and long term stabilisation of the contaminants and their practicability for field sampling campaigns. Long term storage turned out to be problematic for most compound groups even under cooling. Short term stability was problematic also for volatiles such as benzenic aromates, naphthalene and volatile organic halogenated compounds to be analysed by headspace gas chromatography. Acidification (pH <2) was sufficient to prevent degradation of benzenic aromates, naphthalene, phenols and petrol hydrocarbons for up to seven days. The use of acids was not applicable to stabilise volatiles in waters rich in carbonates and sulphides due to stripping of the volatiles with the liberated gases. The addition of sodium azide was successfully used for stabilisation of volatile organic halogenated compounds. KW - Groundwater KW - Sampling KW - Organic pollutants KW - Stabilisation KW - Analysis PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c3em00332a SN - 2050-7887 SN - 2050-7895 VL - 15 IS - 12 SP - 2329 EP - 2337 PB - RSC Publ. CY - CambridgeRSC Publ. AN - OPUS4-29689 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -