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ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
Volume 773, Issue -, Pages 97-104Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2013.03.002
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Comprehensive gas chromatography; GC x GC; Mineral oil; Mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons (MOSH); Mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons (MOAH)
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- Italian Ministry for the University and Research (MIUR)
- FIRB Futuro in Ricerca [RBFR10GSJK]
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The present work is focused on the development/optimization of a comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography method, with dual detection [flame ionization (FID) and mass spectrometric], for the simultaneous identification and quantification of mineral-oil contaminants in a variety of food products. The two main classes of contaminants, namely saturated and aromatic hydrocarbons, were previously fractionated on a manually-packed silver silica solid-phase extraction (SPE) cartridge. The quantitative results were compared with those obtained by performing a large volume injection, in a GC-FID system, after the same SPE process and by an on-line liquid-gas chromatography method, with very similar results observed. The presence of a series of unknown compounds, that appeared when using the off-line methods, was investigated using the mass spectrometric data, and were tentatively-identified as esterified fatty acids, most probably derived from vegetable oil based ink. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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