The presented protocol describes sample homogenization with a laboratory mixer, acid digestion of food samples using a mixture of 68 wt% HNO3 and 30 wt% H2O2via microwave-assisted wet acid digestion, and multi-element determination performed with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.
Rantaša, M., Majer, D., Finšgar, M. Preparation of Food Samples Using Homogenization and Microwave-Assisted Wet Acid Digestion for Multi-Element Determination with ICP-MS. J. Vis. Exp. (202), e65624, doi:10.3791/65624 (2023).