[Determination of 46 plasticizers in food contact polyvinyl chloride packaging materials and their migration into food simulants by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry]

Se Pu. 2011 Jan;29(1):42-8. doi: 10.3724/sp.j.1123.2011.00042.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

A gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method was developed for the determination of 46 plasticizers in food contact polyvinyl chloride (PVC) packaging materials and their migration into food simulants, i. e. water, 3% acetic acid, 10% ethanol and olive oil. Plasticizers in the PVC packaging materials, aqueous food simulants and olive oil food simulants were extracted by the dissolution-precipitation, liquid-liquid extraction and gel permeation chromatography (GPC) approaches, respectively. The extracts were analyzed by GC-MS in selective ion monitoring (SIM) mode and quantified using the external standard method. The cal-ibration curves were linear in the ranges of 0.1-2.0 mg/L with the correlation coefficients of 0.9910-0. 999 9. The limits of detection were from 0. 005 mg/kg to 0. 05 mg/kg ( S/N = 5 ). The recoveries at 3 spiked levels were 69.51%-107. 21% and the relative standard deviations (RSDs n = 6) ranged from 3.53% to 18.95%. These results show that this method is fast, sensitive and accurate for the qualitative and quantitative determination of plasticizers in food contact plastic products and 4 types of food simulants.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Food Contamination / analysis*
  • Food Packaging* / methods
  • Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / methods*
  • Plasticizers / analysis*
  • Polyvinyl Chloride / chemistry*

Substances

  • Plasticizers
  • Polyvinyl Chloride