“…The continued rapid growth in interest in speciation, since the first edition of this book was published, is evidenced by the holding of the '1st International Conference on Trace Element Speciation in Biomedical, Nutritional andEnvironmental Sciences' in Neuherberg, Germany, in 1998 (Michalke andSchramel, 1999a) and, for example, by the formation, in 1997, of an 'EU-network on trace element speciation: preparing for the 21st century' (Cornelis et al, 1999) under the auspices of the Standards Measurement and Testing Programme.…”