DETECTION AND QUANTITATION OF TRACE ETHYL CARBAMATE IN ALCOLLOLIC BEVERAGES BY GC/GC AND GC/GC/MS

Analytical difficulties encountered in the determination of ethyl carbamate, aknown cancinogen, in a wide variety of wines and spirits have been overcome by spe-cific, sensitive GC/GC and CC/CC/MS methods with a relatively shorter extractionprocedure. The lowest detection limits were estimated to be 0. 1 and 0. 01μg/L forGC/GC and GC/GC/MS respectively. The RSD of the GC/GC method was 2. 5%.