Journal
TALANTA
Volume 81, Issue 3, Pages 894-900Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2010.01.034
Keywords
Micellar; HPLC; Melamine; Milk; Validation
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Funding
- Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (MEC) [CTQ 2007 764473/BQU]
- Foundation Caixa-Castello, Bancaixa [P1-1B2006-12]
- FPU
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Melamine is a toxic triazine, illegally used as an additive in milk to apparently increase the amount of protein. A chromatographic procedure using a C18 column and a micellar mobile phase of sodium dodecyl sulphate (0.05 M) and propanol (7.5%), buffered at pH 3, and a detection set by absorbance at 210 nm, was reported for the resolution and quantification of melamine in liquid and powdered milk samples. In this work, samples were diluted with a SDS solution and were directly injected, thus avoiding long extraction and experimental procedures. Melamine was eluted in nearly 9.3 min without overlapping the protein band or other endogeneous compounds. The optimal mobile phase composition was taken using a chemometrical approach that considers the retention factor, efficiency and peak shape. Validation was performed following the European Commission's indications (European Decision 2002/657/EC), and the main analytical parameters studied were: linearity (0.02-100 ppm; r(2) = 0.999), limit of detection (5 ppb), intra- and inter-day precision (R.S.D. <7.6% and <9.7%, respectively) and robustness (R.S.D. <7.4% for retention time and <5.0% for area). Sensitivity was adequate to detect melamine under the safety limits proposed by the US FDA. Finally, recoveries for several milk samples were found in the 85-109% range. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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