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Ongoing Laboratory Performance Study on Chemical Analysis of Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Compounds in Three Aquatic Passive Samplers

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BOOIJ Kees CRUM Steven VRANA Branislav GRABIC Roman MORIN Nicolas A. O. PARMENTIER Koen KECH Cecile KRYSTEK Petra NORO Kazushi BECKER Benjamin LOHMANN Rainer MALLERET Laure KASERZON Sarit L. MIEGE Cecile ALLIOT Fabrice PFEIFFER Fabienne CROWLEY Denis RAKOWSKA Magdalena OCELKA Tomas KIM Gi Beum ROHLER Laura

Rok publikování 2024
Druh Článek v odborném periodiku
Časopis / Zdroj ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Fakulta / Pracoviště MU

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Citace
www https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.3c10272
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c10272
Klíčová slova passive sampling; proficiency testing; interlaboratorycomparison; silicone; polyethylene; POCIS; quality control
Popis The quality of chemical analysis is an important aspect of passive sampling-based environmental assessments. The present study reports on a proficiency testing program for the chemical analysis of hydrophobic organic compounds in silicone and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) passive samplers and hydrophilic compounds in polar organic chemical integrative samplers. The median between-laboratory coefficients of variation (CVs) of hydrophobic compound concentrations in the polymer phase were 33% (silicone) and 38% (LDPE), similar to the CVs obtained in four earlier rounds of this program. The median CV over all rounds was 32%. Much higher variabilities were observed for hydrophilic compound concentrations in the sorbent: 50% for the untransformed data and a factor of 1.6 after log transformation. Limiting the data to the best performing laboratories did not result in less variability. Data quality for hydrophilic compounds was only weakly related to the use of structurally identical internal standards and was unrelated to the choice of extraction solvent and extraction time. Standard deviations of the aqueous concentration estimates for hydrophobic compound sampling by the best performing laboratories were 0.21 log units for silicone and 0.27 log units for LDPE (factors of 1.6 to 1.9). The implications are that proficiency testing programs may give more realistic estimates of uncertainties in chemical analysis than within-laboratory quality control programs and that these high uncertainties should be taken into account in environmental assessments.
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