Abstract

AVENDANO, Edgar; CASTILLO, Elianna  and  SINUCO, Diana. Overall migration test in food packaging: Evaluation of alternative internal standards. Rev.Colomb.Quim. [online]. 2018, vol.47, n.1, pp.34-40. ISSN 0120-2804.  https://doi.org/10.15446/rev.colomb.quim.v47n1.63859.

In the global migration test for plastic packaging intended for fatty foods, glyceryl triheptadecanoate (GTM) is used as the internal standard for the quantification of fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) by gas chromatography. In this work, ethyl 3-phenyl propanoate (EFP) and tetradecanoic acid (AM) were evaluated as alternative internal standards The use of AM presented linear behavior (r > 0.99 and %Sb < 5%), good intermediate precision (HORRATr % 0.9), and accuracy (%R % 100.6%). In contrast, the evaluation of EFP demonstrated that this is not an adequate internal standard for the quantification of FAMEs In addition, it was statistically evaluated that there are no significant differences in the calculation of the global migration from FAMEs quantified using either GTM or AM as internal standards, but the use of EFP presents significant differences.

Keywords : plastic packaging; gas chromatography; fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs).

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