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Simultaneous Determination of 24 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Oils by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Using an Improved Clean-up Procedure

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An improved gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) method was developed for the simultaneous determination of 24 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in edible oils. A novel purification procedure based on the coupling double cartridges (molecular imprinting polymer (MIP) cartridge and PAHs special cartridge) was applied. Under the optimized conditions, the method presented excellent linearity (r ≥ 0.9990) in the range of 1.0–250 μg L−1, the detection limits were 0.1–1 μg kg−1, and high recoveries (86.0–116%) and good reproducibility (relative standard deviations (RSDs) ≤ 10.8) were also obtained using the two solid-phased extraction cartridges in combination. This method is sensitivity, accuracy, which can be used to detect 24 PAHs in edible oil samples.

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This work was supported by the welfare technology application research (analysis and test) project of zhejiang province(No. 2017C37007), the medicine and health science and technology plan program of Zhejiang province (No. 2017KY159 and No. 2017KY160), the competitive distribution research project of Quzhou (No. 2016J017), and the research project of health and family planning commission of Hunan province (No. B2014-134).

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    Hua Zhou, Xianglun Wu, Chunfu Fang, Weiguo Chen, Bindong Zhan & Chenli Song

  2. Hunan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Changsha, 410083, Hunan, China

    Dongyang Chen & Hao Zhang

  3. Quzhou Quality and Technology Supervision and Testing Center, Quzhou, 324000, China

    Huaming Zhu

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Zhou, H., Wu, X., Chen, D. et al. Simultaneous Determination of 24 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Oils by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Using an Improved Clean-up Procedure. Food Anal. Methods 12, 1957–1963 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12161-019-01545-0

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