Food Matrix Spike Level (mg/kg) Recovery (%) Intra-Day Recovery (%) Inter-Day RSDr (%) RSDr (%)
Intra-Day Inter-Day
Sugar 10 n 3 9 1.39 1.61
Mean% 81.24 81.69
SDr 0.113 0.132
50 n 3 9 3.17 1.51
Mean% 85.09 85.71
SDr 1.35 0.649
100 n 3 9 1.61 1.19
Mean% 83.73 84.81
SDr 0.641 1.015
Jam 10 n 3 9 1 2.79
Mean% 81.49 82.59
SDr 0.081 0.23
50 n 3 9 1.59 0.74
Mean% 83.41 84.83
SDr 0.663 0.313
100 n 3 9 1.37 1.18
Mean% 81.62 83.04
SDr 1.119 0.98
Ready to Serve Beverage 10 n 3 9 1.51 1.71
Mean% 82.33 82.85
SDr 0.124 0.141
50 n 3 9 2.19 1.52
Mean% 91.74 90.71
SDr 1.004 0.689
100 n 3 9 1.53 1.76
Mean% 90.58 91.29
SDr 1.389 1.606
Beverage Concentrate 10 n 3 9 1 1.08
Mean% 85.62 84.31
SDr 0.084 0.091
50 n 3 9 2.53 3.09
Mean% 88.88 90.78
SDr 1.122 1.404
100 n 3 9 1.62 1.67
Mean% 91.28 94.53
SDr 1.476 1.582
350 n 3 9 0.45 0.86
Mean% 98 98.45
SDr 1.537 2.969
Biscuit 10 n 3 9 5.98 3.42
Mean% 66.15 65.06
SDr 0.395 0.223
50 n 3 9 2.86 1.18
Mean% 72.06 71.88
SDr 1.029 0.425
100 n 3 9 3.02 4.78
  Mean% 72.49 70.69
  SDr 2.189 3.376
Raisins 10 n 3 9 1.07 1.12
Mean% 82.21 81.87
SDr 0.088 0.095
50 n 3 9 2 4.28
Mean% 84.72 86.92
SDr 0.939 1.862
100 n 3 9 1.21 1.42
Mean% 85.01 85.58
SDr 1.031 1.212
500 n 3 9 0.392 0.81
Mean% 87.21 87.88
SDr 1.707 3.554
750 n 3 9 1.5 1.61
Mean% 88.15 87.99
SDr 9.917 10.559
Fruit Bar 10 n 3 9 0.53 0.7
Mean% 80.94 80.08
SDr 0.043 0.057
50 n 3 9 1.88 3.24
Mean% 84.21 84.11
SDr 0.791 1.361
100 n 3 9 3.02 1.4
Mean% 84.04 83.36
SDr 2.538 1.171
Potato Chips 10 n 3 9 2.39 2.34
Mean% 70.2 70.73
SDr 0.167 0.167
50 n 3 9 4.13 4.66
Mean% 72.83 73.27
SDr 1.504 1.705
100 n 3 9 2.66 2.54
Mean% 74.98 76.81
SDr 1.997 2.924
Table 2: Repeatability of different food matrices. n=number of samples; SDr=Repeatability Standard deviation; %RSDr=% Repeatability Relative standard deviation.