From: Rapid methods to detect organic mercury and total selenium in biological samples
Standard Reference Materials (SRM) | Organic mercury (μg/g dry wt.)†| Total mercury (μg/g dry wt.)†| |||||||
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 |  | Expected value | Observed value | N | Recovery (%) | Expected value | Observed value | N | Recovery (%) |
DOLT-3 | (Dogfish liver) | 1.59 ± 0.12 | 1.57 ± 0.06 | 47 | 98.6 ± 5.7 | 3.37 ± 0.14 | 3.33 ± 0.15 | 61 | 98.9 ± 4.3 |
TORT-2 | (Lobster hepatopancreas) | 0.152 ± 0.013 | 0.149 ± 0.009 | 19 | 97.9 ± 4.7 | 0.27 ± 0.06 | 0.26 ± 0.02 | 23 | 97.5 ± 5.5 |
NIST 1566b | (Oyster tissue) | 0.0132 ± 0.007 | 0.0128 ± 0.0015 | 4 | 97.2 ± 9.6 | 0.0371 ± 0.0013 | 0.0354 ± 0.0022 | 3 | 95.4 ± 4.9 |