Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To establish a method to determine heavy metal elements in vacant gelatin capsules so as to control the quality of the samples. METHODS Vacant gelatin capsules were decomposed with HNO3 by microwave digestion and heavy metal elements of Pb, Cr, Cd, As and Cu were determined simultaneously by ICP-MS. RESULTS The analytical results indicated that the content of Pb, Cr, and As in sample were partly beyond the limits. The recovery rates of the method were 95.4%-104.6%, the RSDs were in the range of 1.8%-3.0%. CONCLUSION The method is proved to be accurate, simple and convenient, which can be applied to practical sample analysis.