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M

astovska

et al

.:

J

ournal of

AOAC I

nternational

V

ol

.

98, N

o

. 2, 2015 

505

blank mussel samples; homogenizing, weighing, and fortifying

all samples; and shipping samples to the study participants.

Cambridge Isotope Laboratories (Tewksbury, MA) is

acknowledged for providing discounted

13

C-PAH standard

mixtures, Shrimp Alliance for supplying blank shrimp samples,

and Jo Marie Cook (Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer

Services, Tallahassee, FL) for securing blank oyster samples for

the study.

The Study Directors are very grateful to all laboratories

that participated in the study and especially to the following

collaborators, listed alphabetically based on their institution

name:

Rolando Perez, Jason Betz, and Steven Perez, Adpen

Laboratories, Inc., Jacksonville, FL

Ken Keide, Mark Misunis, and Jian Wang, Canadian Food

Safety Inspection Agency, Calgary Laboratory, AB, Canada

Jack Jabusch and John Schmitz, Covance Laboratories Inc.,

Madison, WI

Jason Stepp, Walter Hammack, and Jo Marie Cook, Florida

Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Tallahassee, FL

Patricia Lopez-Sanchez, Radoslaw Lizak, and Thomas

Wenzl, Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements, EU

PAH Reference Laboratory, Geel, Belgium

Lucie Drabova and Jana Pulkrabova, Institute of Chemical

Technology, Prague, Czech Republic

Joe Binkley, Doug Staples, and Scott Pugh, Leco Corporation,

St. Joseph, MI

Bonita Taffe, Michigan Department of Community Health

Bureau of Labs, Lansing, MI

Jan Rosmus, State Veterinary Institute, National PAH

Reference Laboratory, Prague, Czech Republic

Katerina Bousova and Klaus Mittendorf, Thermo Fisher

Scientific Food Safety Response Center, Dreieich, Germany

References

 (1) Kalachova, K., Pulkrabova, J., Drabova, L., Cajka, T.,

Kocourek, V., & Hajslova, J. (2011)

Anal. Chim. Acta

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84–91

. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2011.09.016

 (2) CONffIDENCE (2010)

Contaminants in Food and Feed:

Inexpensive Detection for Control of Exposure

. http://www. conffidence.eu

 (3) 

Official Methods of Analysis

(2002)

Guidelines for

Collaborative Study Procedures to Validate Characteristics of a

Method of Analysis

, Appendix D.

http://www.aoac.org/Official_ Methods/Collaborative_Study_Validation_Guidelines.pdf

 (4) AOAC Spreadsheet for Blind Duplicates 2.0.

http://www.aoac.

org/stats/