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Ban the beauty in trace element laboratories: contamination risks of eye shadow

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Brazilian and Chinese eye shadow powders were evaluated for assessing the cosmetics as a source of contamination during sample preparation of biological materials. Nineteen chemical elements were measured by INAA. Highest mass fractions measured were for Ba (~ 2.5%), Cr (~ 1%), Fe (~ 45%), Na (~ 10%) and Sn (~ 1). It was experimentally verified that more than 0.01 mg of eye shadow may drop off and as such may be a potential source of contamination, causing high relative errors depending on the type of biological matrices and chemical element considered.

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The authors are thankful to the Radioisotopes Laboratory, Nuclear Energy Centre for Agriculture, University of São Paulo, for providing financial support for this research.

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  1. Radioisotopes Laboratory, Nuclear Energy Center for Agriculture (CENA), University of São Paulo (USP), Avenida Centenário 303, Piracicaba, SP, 13416-000, Brazil

    Gabriela da Silva, Elisabete A. De Nadai Fernandes, Márcio Arruda Bacchi & Maria Isabel Vega Martinez

  2. College of Agriculture Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ), University of São Paulo (USP), Avenida Pádua Dias 11, Piracicaba, SP, 13418-000, Brazil

    Gabriel Adrián Sarriés

  3. NUQAM Consultancy, 3284 LK, Zuid-Beijerland, The Netherlands

    Peter Bode

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da Silva, G., De Nadai Fernandes, E.A., Bacchi, M.A. et al. Ban the beauty in trace element laboratories: contamination risks of eye shadow. J Radioanal Nucl Chem 318, 761–765 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-018-6158-9

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