PMID- 16650850 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20060814 LR - 20131121 IS - 0021-9673 (Print) IS - 0021-9673 (Linking) VI - 1117 IP - 1 DP - 2006 Jun 2 TI - Simultaneous determination of sorbic and benzoic acids in food dressing by headspace solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography. PG - 109-14 AB - A facile headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME) procedure using 85 microm polyacrylate (PA) fiber is presented for the simultaneous determination of preservatives (sorbic and benzoic acids) in food dressing, including Thousand Island Dressing, HellMANN'S Salad Dressing and Tomato Ketchup, by gas chromatography (GC) with flame ionization detector (FID). The method presented preserves the advantages typical of HS-SPME such as simplicity, low intensity of labor, low cost and solvent free. The main factors affecting the HS-SPME process, such as extraction temperature and time, desorption temperature and time, the acidity and salt concentration of the solution, were optimized. Limits of detection (LODs) of the method were 2.00 microg/L for sorbic acid and 1.22 microg/L for benzoic acid. Relative standard deviations (RSDs) for quintuplicate analyses at three concentration levels of 0.10, 2.0 and 20 mg/L ranged between 3.86 and 14.8%. The method also showed good linearity n a range from 0.02 to 40 mg/L with correlation coefficients (R2) of 0.9986 for sorbic acid and 0.9994 for benzoic acid. Recoveries for the two analytes in all the samples tested ranged from 83.44 to 113.2%. Practical applicability was demonstrated through the simultaneous determination of sorbic and benzoic acids in the three complex samples. FAU - Dong, Chunzhou AU - Dong C AD - Department of sanitary technology, Hubei College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Wuhan 430064, China. dongchzh@163.com FAU - Mei, Yong AU - Mei Y FAU - Chen, Lin AU - Chen L LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20060502 PL - Netherlands TA - J Chromatogr A JT - Journal of chromatography. A JID - 9318488 RN - 0 (Benzoates) RN - X045WJ989B (Sorbic Acid) SB - IM MH - Benzoates/*analysis MH - Chromatography, Gas/*methods MH - *Food Analysis MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Sensitivity and Specificity MH - Sorbic Acid/*analysis MH - Temperature EDAT- 2006/05/03 09:00 MHDA- 2006/08/15 09:00 CRDT- 2006/05/03 09:00 PHST- 2006/02/07 00:00 [received] PHST- 2006/04/02 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2006/04/10 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2006/05/03 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2006/08/15 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2006/05/03 09:00 [entrez] AID - S0021-9673(06)00823-5 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.chroma.2006.04.006 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Chromatogr A. 2006 Jun 2;1117(1):109-14. doi: 10.1016/j.chroma.2006.04.006. Epub 2006 May 2.