Relative hopane content confirming the mineral origin of hydrocarbons contaminating foods and human milk
| Autor: | M Biedermann, Lanfranco S. Conte, Sabrina Moret, Tiziana Populin, Konrad Grob |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Health
Toxicology and Mutagenesis Food Contamination Toxicology Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry law.invention Terpene law mineral oil contamination of foods and human milk unresolved complex mixture (UCM) of paraffins hopanes in foods and human milk relative hopane content (RHC) medicine Animals Humans Mineral Oil Plant Oils Flame ionization detector Mineral oil chemistry.chemical_classification Minerals Chromatography Milk Human Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health General Chemistry Sclerosing Solutions Hydrocarbons Triterpenes Hopanoids Bivalvia Hydrocarbon Unresolved complex mixture chemistry Paraffin Chemistry (miscellaneous) Gas chromatography Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry Food Analysis Food Science medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Food Additives and Contaminants. 21:893-904 |
| ISSN: | 0265-203X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/02652030400001164 |
| Popis: | Hopanes, triterpenoid hydrocarbons formed under geological conditions, were analysed to confirm the mineral origin of the unresolved complex mixtures of hydrocarbons observed in the gas chromatography with flame ionization detection chromatograms of human milk and certain foodstuffs. The 'relative hopane content' (RHC) is introduced, i.e. it is the area ratio of the sum of the hopanes and the paraffins in the same segment of the chromatogram. The RHC in various mineral oil products (motor oils, hydraulic oils, lubricating oils, Vaseline) was 3.4%, with a relative standard deviation of 19%. The RHC determined in samples of vegetable oils, mussels and clams as well as of human milk containing an unresolved complex mixture of hydrocarbons was in the same range, confirming that these samples were contaminated by mineral oil material. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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