Newly improved NIST reference material targets infant formula analysis

Friday, August 28, 2009 - 23:50 in Mathematics & Economics

Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have issued a new certified reference material - a standardised sample backed by NIST - for determining the concentrations of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients in infant and adult nutritional formula and similar products. The new Standard Reference Material (SRM 1849) for Infant/Adult Nutritional Formula, represents a significant improvement over the now discontinued SRM 1846, Infant Formula, which had been offered since 1996...

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