Joint Research Centre, Environment Institute, Ispra

ECA (1997) (European Collaborative Action Indoor Air Quality and its Impact on Man ) Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOC) in Indoor Air Quality Investigations. Report No. 19, EUR 17675 EN, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Environment Institute, Ispra (VA), Italy. 

The tuna fish material (CRM 627) was prepared by the Joint Research Centre, Environment Institute, of Ispra (Italy) whereas the arsenobetaine calibrant was prepared by the Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique et Minerale in Strasbourg (France) [12]. 

Teresa Lettieri, PhD European Commission-DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra (VA), Italy... 

Environment Institute, Joint Research Centre - European Commission, European Chemicals Bureau, EUSES, European Union System for the Evaluation of Substances, EUR 17308, Ispra (Varese), Italy, 1997. 

The sample collection and preparation has been carried out by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft fiir Bioindikation in Berne (Switzerland) and the Environment Institute of the EC Joint Research Centre of Ispra (Italy) the homogeneity and stability studies have been performed by LONZA A.G. in Visp (Switzerland). 

A sewage contaminated calcareous soil was selected from the bank of reference materials of the Environment Institute of the Joint Research Centre of Ispra (Italy) in order to present both the characteristics of a calcareous soil (CaCOs content of 228 g kg ) and with heavy metal content well above the determination limits of the currently used flame atomic absorption spectrometric method. The soil sample was composed of 15.4% sand (2 mm to 50 mm), 9.3% coarse silt (50 to 20 pm), 34.0% fine silt (20 to 2 pm) and 41.3% clay (<2 pm). 

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