Development of a novel certified reference material for the determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in whey protein powder.

Autor: Lobsiger S; Federal Institute of Metrology METAS, Lindenweg 50, 3003, Bern-Wabern, Switzerland. simon.lobsiger@metas.ch., Märki L; Federal Institute of Metrology METAS, Lindenweg 50, 3003, Bern-Wabern, Switzerland., Mallia S; Federal Institute of Metrology METAS, Lindenweg 50, 3003, Bern-Wabern, Switzerland., Umbricht G; Federal Institute of Metrology METAS, Lindenweg 50, 3003, Bern-Wabern, Switzerland., Sprecher H; Sigma-Aldrich Production GmbH (a Subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany), Industriestrasse 25, 9471, Buchs, Switzerland., Breitruck K; Sigma-Aldrich Production GmbH (a Subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany), Industriestrasse 25, 9471, Buchs, Switzerland., Obkircher M; Sigma-Aldrich Chemicals Pvt Ltd (a subsidiary of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany), Plot No-12, Bommasandra Jigani Link Rd, Bengaluru, Karnataka, 560099, India.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry [Anal Bioanal Chem] 2023 Sep; Vol. 415 (23), pp. 5819-5832. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 28.
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-023-04863-9
Abstrakt: Matrix-based certified reference materials (CRMs) play a central role in the analysis of food contaminants for ensuring measurement accuracy and comparability, as they exhibit the same matrix effects during sample preparation and measurement as the food sample under investigation. However, the availability of such CRMs is still limited. This is also true for matrix CRMs containing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), for which maximum levels in food are set in the EU by the Commission Regulation (EU) 2023/915 and in Switzerland by the regulation SR 817.022.15. Therefore, a whey protein powder-based certified reference material (WP-CBR001) was developed according to the requirements of ISO 17034 and the recommendations of ISO Guide 35:2017 containing the four PAHs benz[a]anthracene (BaA), benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), benzo[b]fluoranthene (BbF), and chrysene (Chr). We show that the choice of solvent is of crucial importance to extract the PAHs completely from this matrix. Only polar and protic solvents such as methanol or water provided access for complete extraction of the PAHs. In contrast, nonpolar and polar aprotic solvents, such as n-hexane or ethyl acetate, exhibited only very low extraction efficiencies below 20%. The certified mass fractions and expanded uncertainties (k = 2) were (3.17 ± 0.32) µg/kg BaA, (4.18 ± 0.48) µg/kg BaP, (4.73 ± 0.49) µg/kg BbF, and (2.85 ± 0.33) µg/kg Chr. These values were verified by an interlaboratory comparison study and by the gravimetric mass fractions obtained from production data.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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