title: Determination of the contents of five heavy metals in artificial musk.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the safety of artificial musk by determining its content of five hazard heavy metals.
  
  
  METHODS
  The contents of Pb, Cd,As,Hg,and Cu in artificial musk were detected using inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The contents of Pb,Cd,As,Hg,and Cu was less than 0.35,0.05,0.30,0.20,and 4.50 mg/kg in artificial musk.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Artificial musk has low contents of heavy metals and therefore meets the safety and quality requirments.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Control of Chinese Traditional Medicine and Ethnic Medicine,National Institutes for Food and Drug Control,Beijing 100050,China.
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Technology,Beijing Lianxin Pharmaceutic Co.,Ltd,Beijing 102628,China.
authors.forename: Qin-Wen
authors.initials: QW
authors.lastname: Zou
authors.affiliation: Institute for Control of Chinese Traditional Medicine and Ethnic Medicine,National Institutes for Food and Drug Control,Beijing 100050,China.
authors.forename: Xian-Long
authors.initials: XL
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: Institute for Control of Chinese Traditional Medicine and Ethnic Medicine,National Institutes for Food and Drug Control,Beijing 100050,China.
authors.forename: Ming-Hua
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Institute for Control of Chinese Traditional Medicine and Ethnic Medicine,National Institutes for Food and Drug Control,Beijing 100050,China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Natural Medicinal Chemistry,Institute of Materia Medica,CAMS and PUMC,Beijing 100050,China.
authors.forename: Xuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xiao
authors.affiliation: Institute for Control of Chinese Traditional Medicine and Ethnic Medicine,National Institutes for Food and Drug Control,Beijing 100050,China.
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.affiliation: Department of Technology,Beijing Lianxin Pharmaceutic Co.,Ltd,Beijing 102628,China.
authors.forename: Shu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Institute for Control of Chinese Traditional Medicine and Ethnic Medicine,National Institutes for Food and Drug Control,Beijing 100050,China.
authors.forename: Shuang-Cheng
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal / Q000737:chemistry*; D005229:Fatty Acids, Monounsaturated / Q000737:chemistry*; D015386:Hazardous Substances / Q000032:analysis*; D019216:Metals, Heavy / Q000032:analysis*; D011786:Quality Control
chemical_list: D004365:Drugs, Chinese Herbal; D005229:Fatty Acids, Monounsaturated; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D019216:Metals, Heavy; C008563:musk