Response to Comment on 'Comprehensive Profiling of Coal Tar and Crude Oil to Obtain Mass Spectra and Retention Indices for Alkylated PAH Shows Why Current Methods Err'

摘要

The comment posited by Hawthorne and Miller in response to our paper asks: is it good enough for "a method [to] give data quality sufficient to support its interpretation and use" or should the method produce the correct information needed to answer the scientific and engineering question under study? The responders believe single ion detection meets the EPA's criterion of a performance based method and, thus, provides sufficient data quality to assess whether a given sample is toxic or not.