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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the many people who have contributed to the technical oversight and measurements of nutrients and contaminants in food-matrix Standard Reference Materials. Full listings of contributors can be found on the Certificates of Analysis, available at http://www.nist.gov/srm.

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    Melissa M. Phillips, Katherine E. Sharpless & Stephen A. Wise

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Published in the topical collection Functional Foods and Dietary Supplements with guest editors Melissa M. Phillips and Catherine A. Rimmer.

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Phillips, M.M., Sharpless, K.E. & Wise, S.A. Standard reference materials for food analysis. Anal Bioanal Chem 405, 4325–4335 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-013-6890-5

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