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Setting up of recovery profiles: A tool to perform the compliance with recovery requirements for residue analysis
L Cuadros-Rodríguez1, E M Almansa-López, A M García-Campaña
1School of Qualimetrics, Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Granada, E-18071 Granada, Spain.
Abstract:
The use of the recovery term has presented some confusion in Analytical Chemistry. Recent IUPAC recommendations propose to distinguish between two terms: recovery or recovery factor, Re, and apparent recovery, Re*. Apparent recovery includes recovery factor and a new recovery term proposed in this paper, named calibration recovery, Re(C), which depends of the type of systematic error due to the matrix effect (constant and/or proportional) and is related to the applied calibration methodology. This paper highlights the dependence of the calibration recovery on the sample analyte concentration and, for extension, of the apparent recovery, defines the recovery profile, and makes evident the need to determine a "fit for purpose" analyte concentration interval to comply with a regulated recovery requirements. An approach to estimate the calibration recovery and its associated uncertainty in relation to the above-mentioned dependence is presented. The usefulness of the proposed methodology has been shown in the quantification of a pesticide by GC-ECD for assessing dermal exposure.
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