Method development for the simultaneous determination of methylmercury and inorganic mercury in seafood

Finally, the developed method was applied to 24 seafood samples from different origins and total mercury contents. The concentrations for Total Hg, MeHg+ and iHg ranged from 0.07 to 2.33, 0.003-2.23 and 0.006-0.085 mg Hg kg−1, respectively. The established analytical method allows to obtain results for mercury speciation in less than 1 one hour including both, sample pretreatment and measuring step.