Simultaneous determination of six fluorescent whitening agents in plastic and paper packaging materials by high performance liquid chromatography

doi:10.3724/SP.J.1123.2017.06024

Abstract

Abstract:

A novel analytical method was developed for the simultaneous determination of six fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs:FWA 135, FWA 184, FWA 185, FWA 199, FWA 378 and FWA 393) in paper and plastic food packaging materials by high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection (HPLC-FLD). The sample was extracted with mixed solution of chloroform and acetonitrile (3:7, v/v), then cleaned up by HLB solid phase extraction column. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were carried out by HPLC. The sample was separated on a Phenomenex C18 column using acetonitrile and 5 mmol/L ammonium acetate aqueous solution as mobile phases. The results indicated that the linear range of FWA393 was 15-1500 μg/L and the linear ranges of the other five FWAs were 5-500 μg/L with correlation coefficients greater than 0.999. The recoveries in spiked samples were between 80.4% and 125.0% with RSDs (n=6) of 1%-13%. Furthermore, this method was applied to analyze 12 samples in the market to verify the practicality of the method. The method showed the advantages of simplicity, high recovery and good precision, and is suitable for the detection of the six fluorescent whitening agents in food packaging materials.

Key words: fluorescence detection (FLD), fluorescent whitening agents (FWAs), food packaging materials, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

CLC Number:

O658

ZHANG Juzhou, JI Shuilin, CAI Huimei, LI Jing, WANG Yongxin, WANG Jingqiu. Simultaneous determination of six fluorescent whitening agents in plastic and paper packaging materials by high performance liquid chromatography[J]. Chinese Journal of Chromatography, 2017, 35(11): 1198-1203.

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