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EU Directive 90/128/EEC prescribes a specific migration limit (SML) of 0.05 mg kg−1 for the aliphatic diaminem-xylylenediamine (XDA) into food or food simulants, but there is no generally accepted method of analysis available for testing compliance with this restriction.m-XDA has been determined in olive oil (EU food simulant for fatty foods) by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with fluorescence detection, after extraction into an aqueous phase and derivatization with fluorescamine. The method is appropriate for the quantitative determination ofm-XDA at a minimum level of 0.02 mg kg−1 in this food simulant. The method should also be applicable to other fatty-food simulants (sunflower oil and HB 307).
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Paseiro-Losada, P., Simal-Gándara, J., Sanmartín-Fenollera, P. et al. Determination ofm-xylylenediamine in the official EU food simulant olive oil. Chromatographia 50, 453–456 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02490741
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