“…However, the concentrations of hair inorganic contaminants depend not only on the sample origin but also on the washing procedure, as a cleaning step is often carried out before the analysis. A recent review * Barbara Le Bot barbara.lebot@ehesp.fr 1 Univ Rennes, Inserm, EHESP, Irset (Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail) -UMR_S 1085, Rennes F-35043, France reported~50 different washing procedures for hair inorganic analysis used in the last 10 years [16], and as stated by Kempson and Skinner [17], no consensus can be found.…”