BS EN ISO 17072-1:2011

1   Scope This part of ISO 17072 specifies a method for the determination of extractable metals in leather using extraction with an acid artificial-perspiration solution and subsequent determination with inductively coupled plasma/optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), or inductively coupled plasma/atomic emission spectrometry (ICP/AES), or inductively coupled plasma/mass spectrometry (ICP/MS), or atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) or spectrometry of atomic fluorescence (SFA). This method is especially suitable for determining the extractable chromium in chromium-tanned leathers. This method determines extractable metals in leather; it is not compound-specific or specific to the oxidation state of the metals. The method is also applicable for the determination of many extractable metals, including:

Aluminium (Al) Copper (Cu) Nickel (Ni)

Antimony (Sb) Iron (Fe) Potassium (K)