Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/68227
Type: Artigo de Periódico
Title: Determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in eggs exposed to fire using a simple and efficient method
Authors: Vitor Vaz de Melo Antipoff
Rosimeire Resende dos Santos
Daniella Vasconcellos Augusti
Zenilda de Lourdes Cardeal
Helvécio Costa Menezes
Abstract: The illicit burn practices on farms promote food contamination that is harmful and must be controlled by improved analytical methods. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which have high toxic and carcinogenic potential, can contaminate foods, mainly through fire exposure. Considering the toxicity of PAHs, development of sensitive, simple, and solvent-free methods to analyze PAHs in foods is necessary. This work presents the development of a new method to analyze PAHs in eggs using cold fiber-solid-phase microextraction (CF-SPME) and gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Parameters of temperature extraction, ultrasonic agitation time, sample mass, and modifiers were evaluated to obtain the best CF-SPME conditions. The new method uses a minimal amount of solvent and showed good linearity in the range of 0.0005 to 5.60μg/g. Detection limits were from 0.0002 to 0.046μg/g, and quantification limits were from 0.0005 to 0.152μg/g. The method was applied to PAHs analysis of chicken egg samples from a farm near a site of an uncontrolled tire fire. The concentrations of PAHs in this study ranged from 0.926 to 1.668μg/g. All PAHs were detected in the samples. The total toxicity was estimated by benzo(a)pyrene equivalent (BaPeq) and did not decrease significantly in the period (6 weeks) of sample collection.
Subject: Hidrocarbonetos policiclicos aromaticos
Espectrometria de massa
Cromatografia a gás
Ovos
Poluição
Alimentos - Contaminação
language: eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country: Brasil
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials: UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department: ICX - DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA
Rights: Acesso Restrito
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12161-021-01971-z
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/68227
Issue Date: 2021
metadata.dc.url.externa: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12161-021-01971-z
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Food Analytical Methods
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