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Rapid and Sensitive Screening of Some Acidic Micronutrients in Infant Foods by HPLC With Fluorescent Detector

Rapid and Sensitive Screening of Some Acidic Micronutrients in Infant Foods by HPLC With Fluorescent Detector

Guoliang Li, Weiheng Kong, Guangsen Fan, Wenli Wang, Na Hu, Guang Chen, Xianen Zhao, Jinmao You

J Sci Food Agric. 2016 Jun;96(8):2867-73.

PMID: 26362912

Abstract:

Background:
Currently, commercially prepared complementary foods have become an important part of the diet of many infants and toddlers. But the method for simultaneous analysis of different types of micronutrient remains poorly investigated, which hinders the rapid and comprehensive quality control of infant foods. In the presented study, we first tried to employ the fluorescence labeling strategy combined with high-performance liquid chromatography-fluorescence detection for simultaneous determination of some acidic micronutrients including biotin, nicotinic acid, linolenic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid, arachidonic acid and linoleic acid in infant foods.
Results:
2-(5-Benzoacridine) ethyl-p-toluenesulfonate was used as the fluorescence labeling reagent for simultaneous labeling of the seven components. The labeling conditions were optimized systematically by response surface methodology. The correlation coefficients for the calibration curves of the tested compounds ranged from 0.9991 to 0.9998. Limits of detection were in the range of 1.99-3.05 nmol L(-1) . Relative standard deviation values of retention time and peak area of seven compounds were less than 0.05% and 0.75%, respectively. The intra- and inter-day precision was in the range of 1.81-3.80% and 3.21-4.30%, respectively. When applied to analysis of several infant foods it showed good applicability.
Conclusion:
The developed method has been proven to be simple, inexpensive, selective, sensitive, accurate and reliable for analysis of some acidic micronutrients in infant foodstuffs. Furthermore, this developed method also has powerful potential in the analysis of many other complementary foodstuffs. © 2015 Society of Chemical Industry.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP80400	Ethyl p-toluenesulfonate		80-40-0	Price

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