7. Abbreviations and acronyms
AOAC: Association of Official Analytical Chemists , a non-profit organization tasked with carrying out standardization work for the US government, such as the US Food and Drug Administration.
EIL: inter-laboratory study by inter-laboratory comparison
ICP-MS: inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
IUPAC: International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, an international, non-governmental learned society whose aim is to promote the various aspects of the chemical sciences worldwide.
MRC: certified reference material; reference material, accompanied by a certificate, of which one or more property values are certified by a procedure that establishes its connection to an exact realization of the unit (the certified value is accompanied...
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