New NIST dietary supplement reference materials could be 'berry' useful

Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 15:30 in Mathematics & Economics

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers have developed new certified reference materials for measuring amounts of organic acids in dietary supplements formulated with Vaccinium berries—cranberries, blueberries and bilberries. As described in a recent paper,* manufacturers and researchers can use this new suite of standard reference materialsTM (SRMs) as quality assurance tools.berry SRMs

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