Recent advancements in analytical methods for the determination of steroidal estrogen residues in environmental and food matrices

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (28) ◽  
pp. 5556-5568 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameera R. Gunatilake ◽  
Vihanga K. Munasinghe ◽  
Ruchiranga Ranaweera ◽  
Todd E. Mlsna ◽  
Kang Xia

Residual steroidal estrogens in environmental and food samples have become a cause for concern as they can affect organisms at low ppt concentrations.

Toxins ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Alsharif ◽  
Yeun-Mun Choo ◽  
Guan-Huat Tan

Mycotoxins are common food contaminants which cause poisoning and severe health risks to humans and animals. The present study applied chemometric approach in liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) optimization for simultaneous determination of mycotoxins, i.e., aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, and G2, and ochratoxin A. The validated quick, easy, cheap, effective, rugged, and safe (QuEChERS)-LC-MS/MS method was used to study the occurrence of mycotoxins in 120 food matrices. The recovery ranges from 81.94% to 101.67% with relative standard deviation (RSD) lesser than 11%. Through the developed method, aflatoxins were detected in raisin, pistachio, peanut, wheat flour, spice, and chili samples with concentration ranges from 0.45 to 16.93 µg/kg. Trace concentration of ochratoxin A was found in wheat flour and peanut samples which ranged from 1.2 to 3.53 µg/kg. Some of the tested food samples contained mycotoxins of above the European legal maximum limit.


Chemosensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 322
Author(s):  
Panagiota-Kyriaki Revelou ◽  
Marinos Xagoraris ◽  
Eleftherios Alissandrakis ◽  
Christos S. Pappas ◽  
Petros A. Tarantilis

4(5)-Methylimidazole (4(5)MEI) is a product of the Maillard reaction between sugars and amino acids, which occurs during the thermal processing of foods. This compound is also found in foods with caramel colorants additives. Due to its prevalence in foods and beverages and its potent carcinogenicity, 4(5)MEI has received federal and state regulatory agency attention. The aim of this review is to present the extraction procedures of 4(5)MEI from food matrices and the analytical methods for its determination. Liquid and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry are the techniques most commonly employed to detect 4(5)MEI in food matrices. However, the analysis of 4(5)MEI is challenging due to the high polarity, water solubility, and the absence of chromophores. To overcome this, specialized sample pretreatment and extraction methods have been developed, such as solid-phase extraction and derivatization procedures, increasing the cost and the preparation time of samples. Other analytical methods for the determination of 4(5)MEI, include capillary electrophoresis, paper spray mass spectrometry, micellar electrokinetic chromatography, high-performance cation exchange chromatography, fluorescence-based immunochromatographic assay, and a fluorescent probe.


Author(s):  
Son Tran Hung ◽  
Thanh An Vu Thi ◽  
Thanh Hoa Mac Thi ◽  
Khanh Cao Cong ◽  
Hong Hao Le Thi ◽  
...  

Prebiotics are a group that improves the human intestinal microbiota. The relationship between prebiotics and human health has been an area of increasing interest in recent years. Fructo-oligosaccharides and galacto-oligosaccharides are the two important groups of prebiotics with beneficial effects on human health. Besides that, more and more carbohydrates have shown a good potential to be prebiotics has been studied. This study presents a review of the characteristics, properties, and analytical methods used for the determination of prebiotics in food products. Most of the methods found using chromatographic methods, especially HPAEC - PAD but also another method, such as spectrometric methods have been presented. A discussion was presented highlighting the drawbacks of current analytical methods and the need to develop these methods to analyze the complex food samples containing prebiotics.


2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Stefano La Tegola ◽  
Cosimo Annese ◽  
Michele Suman ◽  
Immacolata Tommasi ◽  
Caterina Fusco ◽  
...  

This work addresses a new approach developed in our laboratory, consisting in the application of isolated dimethyldioxirane (DDO,1a) labelled with18O for synthesis of epoxidized glyceryl linoleate (Gly-LLL,2). We expect that this work could contribute in improving analytical methods for the determination of epoxidized soybean oil (ESBO) in complex food matrices by adopting an18O-labelled-epoxidized triacylglycerol as an internal standard.


Molecules ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (15) ◽  
pp. 3441
Author(s):  
Raffaella Colombo ◽  
Adele Papetti

Mycotoxins are considered one of the most dangerous agricultural and food contaminants. They are toxic and the development of rapid and sensitive analytical methods to detect and quantify them is a very important issue in the context of food safety and animal/human health. The need to detect mycotoxins at trace levels and to simultaneously analyze many different mycotoxin types became mandatory to protect public health. In fact, European Commission regulations specified both their limits in foodstuffs and official sample preparation protocols in addition to analytical methods to verify their presence. Capillary Electrophoresis (CE) includes different separation modes, allowing many versatile applications in food analysis and safety. In the context of mycotoxins, recent advances to improve CE sensitivity, particularly pre-concentration techniques or miniaturized systems, deserve remarkable attention, as they provide an interesting approach in the analysis of such contaminants in complex food matrices. This review summarizes the applications of CE combined with different pre-concentration approaches, which have been proposed in the literature (mainly) in the last ten years. A section is also dedicated to recent microchip–CE devices since they represent the most promising CE mode for this application.


2008 ◽  
Vol 624 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara A. McGlinchey ◽  
Paul A. Rafter ◽  
Fiona Regan ◽  
Gillian P. McMahon

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 66-68
Author(s):  
Shreya Nayak ◽  
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Sanjay Pai P.N. Sanjay Pai P.N.
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