“…In papers cited in this review, the QC/QA is often conducted for total elements determination only or limited to chosen validation parameters such as recovery, LOD and limit of quantitation (LOQ). In 34 among the 51 (67%) research papers cited in this review, some QC/QA aspects are being stated by the authors, whereas only in several papers the QC/QA aspects are described in detail (Nischwitz & Pergantis, 2006;Guimarães et al, 2018;Pétursdóttir et al, 2018;Lorenc et al, 2019Lorenc et al, , 2020aPiovesana et al, 2019). The QC/QA in terms of the identification of elemental species with molecular mass spectrometry is often supported by the comparison of the obtained results with other papers regarding the same or similar substances identification (Van Hulle et al, 2002;Arroyo-Abad et al, 2013;Contreras-Acuña et al, 2013;Amayo et al, 2014a).…”