Journal
JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY A
Volume 1117, Issue 1, Pages 109-114Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2006.04.006
Keywords
food preservatives; sorbic acid; benzoic acid; HS-SPME; GC; food dressing; food analysis
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A facile headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) procedure using 85 mu m polyacrylate (PA) fiber is presented for the simultaneous determination of preservatives (sorbic and benzoic acids) in food dressing, including Thousand Island Dressing, HellMANN'S Salad Dressing and Tomato Ketchup, by gas chromatography (GC) with flame ionization detector (FID). The method presented preserves the advantages typical of HS-SPME such as simplicity, low intensity of labor, low cost and solvent free. The main factors affecting the HS-SPME process, such as extraction temperature and time, desorption temperature and time, the acidity and salt concentration of the solution, were optimized. Limits of detection (LODs) of the method were 2.00 mu g/L for sorbic acid and 1.22 mu g/L for benzoic acid. Relative standard deviations (RSDs) for quintuplicate analyses at three concentration levels of 0.10, 2.0 and 20 mg/L ranged between 3.86 and 14.8%. The method also showed good linearity in a range from 0.02 to 40 mg/L with correlation coefficients (R-2) of 0.9986 for sorbic acid and 0.9994 for benzoic acid. Recoveries for the two analytes in all the samples tested ranged from 83.44 to 113.2%. Practical applicability was demonstrated through the simultaneous determination of sorbic and benzoic acids in the three complex samples. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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