Determination of five kinds of heavy metals in Anoectochilus roxburghii by ICP-MS / 中草药

ABSTRACT

Objective: To establish the inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) method for content determination of five kinds of heavy metals (copper, arsenic, cadmium, mercury, and lead) in Anoectochilus roxburghii. Methods: After the treatment of microwave digestion, ICP-MS method was used in the determination. Results: The standard liquid working curves of Cu, As, Cd, Hg, and Pb had good linearity, with the correlation coefficients of more than 0.998. The average recovery of Cu was 104.3% with relative standard deviation (RSD) of 4.0%, the average recovery of arsenic was 102.2% with RSD of 4.3%, the average recovery Cd was 100.5% with RSD of 0.4%, the average recovery rate of Hg was 101.0% with RSD of 3.6%, and the average recovery of Pb was 101.1% with RSD of 1.1%. Conclusion: The method is stable, reliable, fast, and accurate, and has high sensitivity and good reproducibility. It can be used for the simultaneous determination of Cu, As, Cd, Hg, and Pb in A. roxburghii.