What is it about?
Pigments are only sparingly soluble in common solvents and occur as suspended particles in the ink matrix. Their detection and identification therefore pose a major challenge for laboratories involved in monitoring the legal compliance of Tattoo inks and PMU. We overcame this challenge by developing a LDI- and MALDI-TOF MS method.
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Why is it important?
Our study showed that banned pigments are rarely declared, but rather masked by listing non present legal pigments and label forging. This is not only legally a case of fraud but also constitutes a risk for the users of these tattoo inks.
Perspectives
We strongly believe that these inks must be made safer and we are certain that our method will help to achieve this aim.
Markus Niederer
Kanton Basel-Stadt
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This page is a summary of: Identification of organic pigments in tattoo inks and permanent make-ups using MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry, F1000Research, November 2017, Faculty of 1000, Ltd.,
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.13035.1.
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