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Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 6 Final Report

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Chuck Barber, Carolyn Burdette, Hugh Hayes, Monique Johnson, Shaun Kotoski, Jacolin Murray, Melissa M. Phillips, Kate Rimmer, Laura J. Wood, Andrea Yarberry

Abstract

The Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program (HAMQAP) was launched in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) in 2017. HAMQAP was established to enable laboratories to improve the accuracy of measurements in samples that represent human intake (e.g., foods, dietary supplements, tobacco) and samples that represent human metabolism (e.g., blood, serum, plasma, urine) for demonstration of proficiency and/or compliance with various regulations. Analytes are paired where possible to represent the full spectrum of health assessment. Exercise 6 of this program offered the opportunity for laboratories to assess their in house measurements of nutritional elements (chlorine, iodine, chromium, molybdenum, and selenium), toxic elements (arsenic, cadmium, lead, and mercury), contaminants (chlorate and perchlorate, glyphosate and aminomethylphosphonic acid (AMPA)), water-soluble vitamins (biotin and vitamin C), fat-soluble vitamins (vitamins A and E), fatty acids (select omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids), botanicals (anthocyanidins), natural products (caffeine, theobromine, and theophylline), and proximates (fat, protein, carbohydrates, solids, ash, and calories) in foods and dietary supplements, and corresponding biomarkers/metabolites in clinical specimens (human red blood cells).
Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 8394
Report Number
8394
NIST Pub Series
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR)
Pub Type
NIST Pubs

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https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8394
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Keywords

dietary supplements, quality assurance, foods, nutrition, metabolites
Standards education, Reference materials, Food and nutrition and Clinical diagnostics

Citation

Barber, C. , Burdette, C. , Hayes, H. , Johnson, M. , Kotoski, S. , Murray, J. , Phillips, M. , Rimmer, K. , Wood, L. and Yarberry, A. (2021), Health Assessment Measurements Quality Assurance Program: Exercise 6 Final Report, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.IR.8394, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=933205 (Accessed November 23, 2024)

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Created September 20, 2021, Updated November 29, 2022