Journal
FOOD CHEMISTRY
Volume 243, Issue -, Pages 162-167Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2017.09.110
Keywords
Fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs); Screening; Flour; Ultra high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS/MS)
Funding
- Science and Innovation Commission of Guangzhou City [201604020035]
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A sensitive UPLC-MS/MS method was established for the simultaneous determination of seven fluorescent whitening agents in flour matrix. Samples were ultrasonically extracted by trichloromethane-acetone. Then analytes were separated on a C18 column and detected by MS/MS. The developed method was validated in terms of the linearity, matrix effect, accuracy and precision. The method showed a good linearity (r > 0.997) for all analytes in their respective concentration ranges. The LOQ for seven analytes were in the range of 2.5-25.0 mu g/kg. The matrix effect was not significant and almost negligible. The average recoveries of seven analytes from the negative samples spiked at three different concentrations were in a range from 81.5% to 105%. The intra-day precision and inter-day precision were in the ranges of 2.9-9.0% and 6.7-11.2%. The developed method was successfully applied to analyze forty commercial flours and FWA184 was detected in three samples with the concentrations of 31-60 mu g/kg.
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