This area contains summary information on the proficiency tests organized by the Functional Area for Proficiency Tests for the Chemical Safety of Food of the Department of Food Safety, Nutrition and Veterinary Public Health, accredited as Organiser of Interlaboratory Proficiency Tests according to ISO / IEC 17043 (accreditation n ° 0002P of 02/01/2019, field of accreditation: "metals in food with flexible purpose, quantitative scheme"), at the request of the National Reference Laboratory for metals and nitrogenous compounds (NRL-MN).
Year 2023
Proficiency Test MPA 2023.1. Determination of total concentration of arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), nickel (Ni) and lead (Pb) in samples of rice-based drink.
Test materials: rice-based drink.
Participants: 17 laboratories.
Carried out from July to December, 2023.
Proficiency Test PVA 2023.1. Determination of inorganic arsenic (iAs) concentration in samples of rice-based drink.
Test materials: rice-based drink.
Participants: 7 laboratories.
Carried out from July to October, 2023.
Year 2022
Proficiency Test 2022/1. Determination of the concentrations of cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) in a meat based processed food.
Test materials: roast turkey.
Participants: 14 laboratories.
To be carried out from June to December, 2022.
Year 2021
Proficiency Test 2021/1. Determination of the concentrations of total arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), manganese (Mn), nickel (Ni) and inorganic tin (Sn) in fruit juice.
Test materials: apple juice.
Participants: 18 laboratories.
Carried out from May to November, 2021.
Year 2020
Proficiency Test 2020/1. Determination of concentrations of total arsenic (As), inorganic arsenic (iAs), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), nickel (Ni), tin (Sn) and zinc (Zn) in rice-based powdered baby food.
The PT was organised in collaboration with the Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (BVL) Referat, Berlin (Germany).
Test materials: rice-based powdered baby food.
Participants: Italian laboratories, 22. German laboratories, 11
Carried out from 7 July 2020 to 28 February 2021.
Year 2019
Proficiency Test 1/2019. Determination of the total concentrations of arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb) and nickel (Ni) in liquid baby food
Comparative exercise for the determination of the concentration of inorganic arsenic (iAs) in the same matrix.
Test materials: baby food, liquid.
Participants: 17 laboratories.
Carried out from 25 June 2019 to 29 February 2020.
LNR per i metalli e i composti azotati negli alimenti
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