1. Laboratory skills: mechanics and other hands-on skills

   • John Fetzer

   Building a Professional Career 18 December 2003 Pages: 1137 - 1138

2. Chemical Logic Challenge

   Analytical Challenge 26 February 2004 Pages: 1139 - 1140

3. Solution to Spectroscopy Challenge 5

   Analytical Challenge 26 February 2004 Pages: 1141 - 1142

4. Ninth international symposium on biological and environmental reference materials (BERM-9)

   • Jean Pauwels
   • Hendrik Emons

   Editorial 29 November 2003 Pages: 1143 - 1144

5. COMAR²—the internet database for certified reference materials

   • Thomas Steiger
   • Rita Pradel

   Feature Article 04 November 2003 Pages: 1145 - 1146

6. Polybrominated diphenyl ether congeners and toxaphene in selected marine standard reference materials

   • John R. Kucklick
   • Karen J. S. Tuerk
   • Stephen A. Wise

   Paper in Forefront 29 January 2004 Pages: 1147 - 1151

   

7. Natural toxins: risks, regulations and the analytical situation in Europe

   • Hans P. van Egmond

   Review 13 December 2003 Pages: 1152 - 1160

   

8. Filling the AOAC triangle with food-matrix standard reference materials

   • Katherine E. Sharpless
   • Robert R. Greenberg
   • Milan Ihnat

   Special Issue Paper 20 December 2003 Pages: 1161 - 1167

   

9. Preservation of sensitive CRMs and monitoring their stability at IRMM

   • T. P. J. Linsinger
   • B. M. Gawlik
   • H. Emons

   Special Issue Paper 26 September 2003 Pages: 1168 - 1174

   

10. Selenomethionine contents of NIST wheat reference materials

    • Wayne R. Wolf
    • Robert J. Goldschmidt

    Special Issue Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1175 - 1181

    

11. Production of a calibrant certified reference material for determination of the estrogenic mycotoxin zearalenone

    • Ralf Dieter Josephs
    • Rudolf Krska
    • Hans Pettersson

    Special Issue Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1182 - 1189

    

12. Production of certified reference materials for mycotoxins: IRMM’s view on the assessment of uncertainties

    • Ralf Dieter Josephs
    • Robert Koeber
    • Heinz Schimmel

    Special Issue Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1190 - 1197

    

13. Cloned plasmid DNA fragments as calibrators for controlling GMOs: different real-time duplex quantitative PCR methods

    • Isabel Taverniers
    • Erik Van Bockstaele
    • Marc De Loose

    Special Issue Paper 20 December 2003 Pages: 1198 - 1207

    

14. Human urine certified reference material CZ 6009: creatinine, styrene metabolites (mandelic acid and phenylglyoxylic acid)

    • I. Šperlingová
    • L. Dabrowská
    • M. Tichý

    Special Issue Paper 09 October 2003 Pages: 1208 - 1212

    

15. Three new mussel tissue standard reference materials (SRMs) for the determination of organic contaminants

    • Dianne L. Poster
    • Michele M. Schantz
    • Stephen A. Wise

    Special Issue Paper 31 January 2004 Pages: 1213 - 1231

    

16. The need for reference materials when monitoring nitrate intake

    • Isabel Castanheira
    • Luisa Oliveira
    • Anton Alink

    Special Issue Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1232 - 1238

    

17. Preparation and certification of a reference material for the determination of nutrients in seawater

    • Vincent Clancy
    • Scott Willie

    Special Issue Paper 24 January 2004 Pages: 1239 - 1242

18. Establishment of traceability of ammonium nitrogen determination in wastewater

    • Andreja Drolc
    • Milenko Roš
    • Magda Cotman

    Special Issue Paper 22 October 2003 Pages: 1243 - 1250

    

19. Two new marine sediment standard reference materials (SRMs) for the determination of organic contaminants

    • Stephen A. Wise
    • Dianne L. Poster
    • Barbara J. Porter

    Special Issue Paper 27 January 2004 Pages: 1251 - 1264

    

20. Certification of mono-, di-, and tributyltin compounds in marine sediment certified reference material by species-specific isotope dilution mass spectrometric analysis using synthesized ¹¹⁸Sn-labeled butyltins

    • Kazumi Inagaki
    • Akiko Takatsu
    • Kensaku Okamoto

    Special Issue Paper 13 December 2003 Pages: 1265 - 1270

    

21. Certified sediment reference materials for trace element analysis from the National Metrology Institute of Japan (NMIJ)

    • Kazumi Inagaki
    • Akiko Takatsu
    • Kensaku Okamoto

    Special Issue Paper 10 December 2003 Pages: 1271 - 1276

22. New NIST sediment SRM for inorganic analysis

    • Rolf Zeisler

    Special Issue Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1277 - 1283

    

23. Certified reference materials to support a European thematic strategy for soil protection: the EUROSOILS (IRMM-443) experience

    • B. M. Gawlik
    • A. Lamberty
    • H. Muntau

    Special Issue Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1284 - 1287

24. Shipboard analysis of picomolar levels of manganese in seawater by chelating resin concentration and chemiluminescence detection

    • Takashi Doi
    • Hajime Obata
    • Masahiro Maruo

    Paper in Forefront 22 January 2004 Pages: 1288 - 1293

    

25. Structure elucidation of nanogram quantities of unknown designer drugs based on phenylalkylamine derivates by ion trap multiple mass spectrometry

    • Stephan Kölliker
    • Michael Oehme

    Original Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1294 - 1304

    

26. Characterisation of selected drugs with nitrogen-containing saturated ring structures by use of electrospray ionisation with ion-trap mass spectrometry

    • W. Franklin Smyth
    • Venkataraman N. Ramachandran
    • Daniel Coulter

    Original Paper 22 January 2004 Pages: 1305 - 1312

    

27. Application of the revised EU criteria for the confirmation of anabolic steroids in meat using GC-MS

    • Alida A. M. Stolker
    • Sylvia H. M. A. Linders
    • Udo A. T. Brinkman

    Original Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1313 - 1321

    

28. Quantification of bile acids directly from plasma by MALDI-TOF-MS

    • DebraLynn Mims
    • David Hercules

    Original Paper 28 January 2004 Pages: 1322 - 1326

    

29. Thick-film electrodes for measurement of superoxide and hydrogen peroxide based on direct protein–electrode contacts

    • Andrey V. Krylov
    • Moritz Beissenhirtz
    • Fred Lisdat

    Original Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1327 - 1330

    

30. Biomimetic piezoelectric quartz sensor for caffeine based on a molecularly imprinted polymer

    • Benilda S. Ebarvia
    • Christina A. Binag
    • Fortunato Sevilla III

    Original Paper 27 January 2004 Pages: 1331 - 1337

    

31. A one-step immunochromatographic assay for detecting ginsenosides Rb1 and Rg1

    • Waraporn Putalun
    • Noriko Fukuda
    • Yukihiro Shoyama

    Original Paper 28 January 2004 Pages: 1338 - 1341

    

32. Characterization of honey amino acid profiles using high-pressure liquid chromatography to control authenticity

    • J. F. Cotte
    • H. Casabianca
    • M. F. Grenier-Loustalot

    Original Paper 22 January 2004 Pages: 1342 - 1350

    

33. Voltammetric behaviour and determination of moxifloxacin in pharmaceutical products and human plasma

    • N. Erk

    Original Paper 28 January 2004 Pages: 1351 - 1356

    

34. Determination of organotin compounds in biological samples using accelerated solvent extraction, sodium tetraethylborate ethylation, and multicapillary gas chromatography–flame photometric detection

    • Andrzej Wasik
    • Tomasz Ciesielski

    Original Paper 30 January 2004 Pages: 1357 - 1363

    

35. Direct optical resolution of the enantiomers of novel chiral tetrahedral metal clusters by HPLC on a cellulose tris-(3,5-dimethylphenylcarbamate) stationary phase

    • Wenzhi Li
    • Weiqiang Zhang
    • Yuanqi Yin

    Original Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1364 - 1368

    

36. Solvent extraction of amino acids into a room temperature ionic liquid with dicyclohexano-18-crown-6

    • Svetlana V. Smirnova
    • Irina I. Torocheshnikova
    • Igor V. Pletnev

    Original Paper 28 January 2004 Pages: 1369 - 1375

    

37. Dynamic ultrasound-assisted leaching of essential macro and micronutrient metal elements from animal feeds prior to flame atomic absorption spectrometry

    • F. Priego-Capote
    • M. D. Luque de Castro

    Original Paper 27 January 2004 Pages: 1376 - 1381

    

38. A method for near-infrared spectral calibration of complex plant samples with wavelet transform and elimination of uninformative variables

    • Xueguang Shao
    • Fang Wang
    • Qingde Su

    Original Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1382 - 1387

    

39. Speciation analysis of mercury in water samples by cold vapor atomic absorption spectrometry after preconcentration with dithizone immobilized on microcrystalline naphthalene

    • Ali Mohammad Haji Shabani
    • Shayessteh Dadfarnia
    • Navid Nasirizadeh

    Original Paper 21 January 2004 Pages: 1388 - 1391

    

40. Wavelet packet transform and artificial neural network applied to simultaneous kinetic multicomponent determination

    • Shouxin Ren
    • Ling Gao

    Original Paper 28 January 2004 Pages: 1392 - 1398