scholarly journals Development and validation of GC/MS method for simultaneous determination of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in pork meat matrix

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Ivan Givechev ◽  
Dimitar Tanev ◽  
Dancho Danalev

Abstract The major processes for introducing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in food are smoking and grilling of different products. But in addition, PAHs can permeate in the food chain due to their high lipophilicity and ability to be accumulated in specific tissue, through contaminated animal feed. Further, when some parts of these animals are marketed as food, the accumulated PAHs can go to the human organism. Some of them are classified as highly toxic, carcinogenic and mutagenic for animal and human organisms so they are under consideration of International and European legislation. This work reports development and validation of simple and fast GC/MS method for 16 PAHs determination. Comparison of two methods for sample preparation in pork meat matrix standard extraction/saponification procedure and modified QuEChERS method is also done. In addition, this paper report the calibration step of instrument and a recovery study for 16 PAHs in model pork meat, using modified QuEChERS procedure for sample pretreatment. The calibration step with accessible and suitable for use in real laboratory conditions internal standard (chrysene D12) is done in the range 10–100 ppb using toluene as solvent. The obtained results show very good linearity (R2 = 0.99 to 1.00). For the recovery study six model samples were spiked with 16 PAHs and they all are subjected to QuEChERS procedure. The recovery is calculated and the obtained data (71–120%) is in a good correlation with requirements of international legislation. Finally, LOD values for all 16 investigated compounds of modified GC/MS method and for the instrument were determined.

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 1601-1606
Author(s):  
AURELIA COROIAN ◽  
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VIOARA MIREŞAN ◽  
CRISTIAN OVIDIU COROIAN ◽  
CAMELIA RĂDUCU ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-198
Author(s):  
Alexandra Tăbăran ◽  
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Ionuţ Vlad Cordiş ◽  
Anca Becze ◽  
Sorin Daniel Dan ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 539-548
Author(s):  
Noelia María Valera-Tarifa ◽  
Juan Carlos López-Martínez ◽  
José Luis Martínez Vidal ◽  
Antonia Garrido Frenich

2014 ◽  
Vol 97 (4) ◽  
pp. 978-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramón Aznar ◽  
Beatriz Albero ◽  
Consuelo Sánchez-Brunete ◽  
Esther Miguel ◽  
José L Tadeo

Abstract An analytical method was developed for the simultaneous determination in poultry manure of 41 organic contaminants belonging to different chemical classes: pesticides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers. Poultry manure was extracted with a modified QuEChERS method, and the extracts were analyzed by isotope dilution GC/MS. Recovery of these contaminants from samples spiked at levels ranging from 25 to 100 ng/g was satisfactory for all the compounds. The developed procedure provided LODs from 0.8 to 9.6 ng/g. The analysis of poultry manure samples collected on different farms confirmed the presence of some of the studied contaminants. Pyrethroids and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were the main contaminants detected. DDT and its metabolite DDE were also found but at relatively low concentrations.


Foods ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leona Puljić ◽  
Krešimir Mastanjević ◽  
Brankica Kartalović ◽  
Dragan Kovačević ◽  
Jelena Vranešević ◽  
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During smoking, meat products may get contaminated by polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), especially the ones that are smoked in traditional (uncontrolled) conditions. This study aims to evaluate the difference in PAH content in samples of traditional dry cured pork meat products, “Hercegovačka pečenica”, produced in (1) a traditional smokehouse and (2) in industrial chambers. The study revealed that the content of the four priority PAHs (PAH4) in samples produced in a traditional smoking manner highly exceeded (up to 10 times) the maximal limits set for PAHs (12 µg/kg). PAH4 in all samples subjected to industrial smoking procedures was below the limit of quantification. All samples had below-the-limit-of-quantification values for Benzo[a]pyrene. The surface layer of the samples produced in traditional conditions had the highest total content of PAH16. The inner parts of all samples, whether traditional or industrial, had significantly lower PAH16 concentration than the surface layer.


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