Graphene Decorated with Nickel Nanoparticles as a Sensitive Substrate for Simultaneous Determination of Sunset Yellow and Tartrazine in Food Samples

In this paper, ultrathin graphene (GN) nanosheets were uniformly decorated with nickel (Ni) nanoparticles, as confirmed by scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. This GN? Ni hybrid exhibited excellent accumulation and catalytic capacity for the simultaneous detection of sunset yellow and tartrazine, two colorants commonly found mixed in foodstuffs. The electrochemical reaction mechanism of sunset yellow and tartrazine were studied in detail on the GN? Ni nanocomposite modified glassy carbon electrode. In square wave voltammetry measurements, the oxidation peak potentials of sunset yellow and tartrazine were separated by about 250 mV. This novel proposed voltammetric method has good selectivity which was successfully applied for the simultaneous determination of sunset yellow and tartrazine in some food sample extracts.     

混合食用色素的卡尔曼滤波光度分析

本文用联机卡尔曼滤波光度法成功地同时测定了混合合成食用色素样品中五个组分。它们分别是40号红、苋菜红、柠檬黄、日落黄和亮蓝。方法准确、快速,无需予分离。     

Determination of food colorants by microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography

A microemulsion electrokinetic chromatography (MEEKC) method was developed to analyze and detect eight food colorants (tartrazine, fast green FCF, brilliant blue FCF, allura red AC, indigo carmine, sunset yellow FCF, new coccine, and carminic acid), which are commonly used as food additives in various food products. The effects of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) surfactant, organic modifier, cosurfactant, and oil were examined in order to optimize the separation. The amount of organic modifier (acetonitrile) and SDS surfactant were determined as apparent influences on the separation resolution while the type of oil and cosurfactant rarely affected the separation selectivity of the eight colorants. A highly efficient MEEKC separation method, where the eight colorants were separated with baseline resolution within 14 min, was achieved by using a microemulsion solution of pH 2.0 containing 3.31% SDS, 0.81% octane, 6.61% 1-butanol, and 10% acetonitrile. This optimal MEEKC method has a higher separation efficiency and similar detection limit when compared to conventional capillary electrophoresis (CE) method. Furthermore, a sample pretreatment is rarely needed when this MEEKC technique is used to analyze colorants in food products, whereas a suitable sample pretreatment (for example solid-phase extraction) has to be employed prior to CE separation in order to eliminate matrix interferences resulting from the constituents of the food sample.     

Effects of synthetic food colorants on the interaction between norfloxacin and bovine serum albumin by fluorescence spectroscopy

Abstract  

The effects of synthetic food colorants like tartrazine, sunset yellow, and erythrosine on the binding reaction between norfloxacin and bovine serum albumin (BSA) were investigated by fluorescence spectroscopy. Results showed that food colorants bound to BSA by van der Waals force and hydrogen bonding formation and norfloxacin by electrostatic interaction. In addition, marker competitive experiments suggested that the primary binding site for both norfloxacin and food colorants was located at subdomain IIA of BSA (site I). The presence of food colorants could alter the binding constant and distance between BSA and norfloxacin. The effects of colorants were dependent on their concentrations and binding affinity to BSA. The interaction could result in the change of the free, biologically active fraction of norfloxacin in blood.     

Voltammetric determination of food colorants using a polyallylamine modified tubular electrode in a multicommutated flow system

This work describes the construction of a polyallylamine modified tubular glassy carbon electrode and its application in the electroreduction of food azo colorants (tartrazine, sunset yellow and allura red) by square wave voltammetry. The electrode modification prevented the surface fouling and, simultaneously, enhanced the analytical signal intensity. The developed unit was coupled to a multicommutated flow system which, given the complexity of samples, was designed to allow the implementation of the standard additions method in an automatic way, using only one standard solution.The described method presented a linear range up to about 2.0 × 10⁻⁴ mol l⁻¹ for the referred colorants, with a detection limit of 1.8 × 10⁻⁶ mol l⁻¹ for tartrazine, 3.5 × 10⁻⁶ mol l⁻¹ for sunset yellow and 1.4 × 10⁻⁶ mol l⁻¹ for allura red. The method was applied in the analysis of these colorants in several food samples, and no statistically significant difference between the results obtained by the proposed and the comparative method (HPLC) was found, at a 95% confidence level. Repeatability in the analysis of samples (expressed in R.S.D.) was about 3% (n = 10).     

Evaluation of complex spectral-pH three-way arrays by modified bilinear least-squares: determination of four different dyes in interfering systems

This article reports on the first application of a modified version of the bilinear least-squares model to absorbance-pH second-order data recorded for complex samples. The latter are composed of fruit drink powders, where four different analytes and additional background components occur. The analytes are the common juice colorants tartrazine, yellow sunset, allura red and indigo carmine. The data have been measured after generating a double pH gradient within a flow injection system. The selected chemometric methodology adequately exploits the second-order advantage, needed to take into account the background interferents present in real samples. Due to severe spectral overlapping between the acid and basic forms of each of the colorants in the working pH range, other second-order multivariate calibration methods such as parallel factor analysis and multivariate curve resolution-alternating least-squares could not be successfully applied to the presently studied samples. Recoveries of 94.8, 104.7, 109.3 and 105.3% were obtained for yellow sunset, indigo carmine, allura red and tartrazine respectively in the real test samples.     

Graphene and graphene like 2D graphitic carbon nitride: Electrochemical detection of food colorants and toxic substances in environment

Excessive consumption of substances such as food colorants, exposure to doses of metal ions, antibiotic residues and pesticides residues above maximum tolerance limit have a detrimental effect on human health. Hence in detecting these harmful substances, the development of sensitive, selective and convenient analytical tools is an essential step. Graphene and graphene like 2D graphitic carbon nitride have shown great promise in the development of electrochemical sensors for determining the levels of these substances in different samples. In this paper, graphene and graphene like 2D graphitic carbon nitride applications on the determination of various food colorants in foods and drinks such as azo dyes (tartrazine, allura red, amaranth, carmine and sunset yellow); metal ions contaminants, antibiotic and pesticide residues in the environment are reviewed.     

Spectrophotometric multicomponent determination of sunset yellow, tartrazine and allura red in soft drink powder by double divisor-ratio spectra derivative, inverse least-squares and principal component regression methods

Double divisor-ratio spectra derivative (graphical method), classical least-squares and principal component regression (two numerical methods) methods were developed for the spectrophotometric multicomponent analysis of soft drink powders and synthetic mixtures containing three colorants without any chemical separation. The graphical method is based on the use of derivative signals of the ratio spectra using double divisor. In this method, the linear determination ranges were 2-8 mug ml(-1) sunset yellow, 4-18 mug ml(-1) tartrazine and 2-8 mug ml(-1) allura red in 0.1 M HCl. In the numerical methods, a training set was randomly prepared by using 18 samples containing between 0 and 8 mug ml(-1) of sunset yellow, 0-18 mug ml(-1) of tartrazine and 0-8 mug ml(-1) of allura red. The chemometric calibrations were calculated by using the prepared training set and its absorbances at seven points (from 375.0 to 550.0 nm) in the spectral region 325-584 nm. The proposed methods were validated by using synthetic ternary mixtures and applied to the simultaneous determination of three colorants in soft drink powders. The obtained results were statistically compared with each other.     

高效液相色谱法同时测定蜜饯中的16种食品添加剂

建立了同时检测蜜饯中16种食品添加剂(安赛蜜、糖精钠、苯甲酸、山梨酸、脱氢乙酸、新红、诱惑红、柠檬黄、苋菜红、胭脂红、日落黄、亮蓝、赤藓红、对羟基苯甲酸甲酯、对羟基苯甲酸乙酯、对羟基苯甲酸丙酯)含量的高效液相色谱法.选用Athena C18-wp色谱柱(4.6 mm×250 mm,5 μm),以0.02mol/L乙酸铵...     

Food dyes screening using electrochemistry approach in solid state: the case of sunset yellow dye electrochemical behavior

Concerning the importance of the identification and characterization of food dyes in food science, this work presents a screening method using voltammetry of immobilized microparticles for identification in solid state of sunset yellow, tartrazine yellow, brilliant blue, indigotine, and erythrosine in food matrices. Different aqueous supporting electrolyte were investigated for screening purpose and NaCl 0.1 mol L⁻¹ showed to be suitable for evaluating dyes in solid state. By using square wave voltammetry as detection mode was possible to establish qualitative diagnostic criteria for identification of dyes in commercials powder of food dyes samples using both anodic and cathodic scan. Moreover, based on the solid-state electrochemistry profile and due to the lack of information about the electrochemical behavior of these compounds in solid state, some oxi/reduction pathways could be elucidated, and special attention was given to the case of sunset yellow dye.

     

有机-无机杂化聚离子液体材料制备及其对染料吸附性能的评价

以烯丙基三乙氧基硅烷与1-乙烯基-3-辛基咪唑溴盐离子液体为单体通过自由基聚合及溶胶-凝胶制备了有机-无机杂化聚离子液体材料。通过红外光谱和扫描电镜对所制备的杂化聚离子液体材料进行了表征,并考察了其对柠檬黄、日落黄、苋菜红以及诱惑红等常见染料的吸附性能。研究结果表明:所制备的聚离子液体材料对日落黄和诱惑红具有优异的吸附性能,其吸附容量分别为29.20和86.17 mg/g;当吸附时间为5 min时,该材料对诱惑红和日落黄的吸附分别达到平衡时吸附量的87.5%和72.8%,显示了较快的吸附速率。     

Automatic screening method for the rapid and simple discrimination between synthetic and natural colorants in foods

A simple screening method was developed to discriminate between synthetic and natural colorants present in foods in order to reduce the use of expensive instruments such as a liquid chromatograph with diode array detection. A rapid flow system was proposed in which samples containing natural and synthetic colorants in an acetic acid medium were passed through a wool/cotton column, where only synthetic colorants were retained and were then eluted with dilute ammonia. Yellow, red and green-blue-brown additives can be monitored at 400, 530 and 610 nm, respectively, with a conventional spectrophotometer. Complete discrimination (no false positives) between natural and synthetic colorants can be obtained for molar concentrations of natural colorants (in the absence of synthetic ones) up to 2000 (yellow), 2000 (red) and 10 000 (brown) times that of the detection limit (DL) of synthetic additives. The reliability of the method was established at five concentrations (between 0.5 and 3 DL) of the synthetic colorants tartrazine (yellow), erythrosin B (red) and brilliant black BN (brown). For a cut-off concentration of 2 DL, the percentage of false negatives ranges from 8 to 12%. Finally, the method was applied to screening several fruit drinks and candies for the determination of synthetic colorants with a sampling frequency of 10 h⁻¹.     

液相色谱法测定果蔬汁中柠檬黄和日落黄方法优化

对液相色谱法测定果蔬汁中柠檬黄和日落黄进行了方法优化,对色谱条件进行了调整,采用ODS-C18型(250 mm×4.6 mm)色谱柱,流动相甲醇-0.02 mol/L乙酸铵(体积比40∶60,pH4),流速为0.6 mL/min。采用紫外检测器,柠檬黄检测波长为430 nm,日落黄检测波长为510 nm。该方法测定结果的相对标准偏差为柠檬黄1.3%(n=4)、日落黄2.3%(n=4)。柠檬黄和日落黄的平均回收率分别为84.17%、88.33%。该法满足实验要求。     

食品中柠檬黄铝色淀和日落黄铝色淀的毛细管区带电泳分析

发展了一种新的采用毛细管区带电泳分析柠檬黄铝色淀和日落黄铝色淀的方法。通过前处理步骤成功实现了铝色淀中铝基质与色素的分离。利用石英毛细管柱（48.50 cm（有效长度40.00 cm）×50 μm）,分别针对柠檬黄铝色淀和日落黄铝色淀进行了电泳条件的优化,并得到最优分离结果。所建立的定量分析方法的检出限对于柠檬黄铝色淀和日落黄铝色淀分别达0.26 mg/L和0.27 mg/L,线性范围分别为0.53~1.3×10²mg/L和0.54~1.4×10²mg/L,两种被分析物的测定重复性（RSD,n=6）分别为4.3%和5.7%,日间重复性（RSD,n=6）分别为5.6%和6.0%。经过更深入研究后,该方法可以发展为食品中相应色淀的检测方法。     

Facile preparation of nano-g-C3N4/UiO-66-NH2 composite as sorbent for high-efficient extraction and preconcentration of food colorants prior to HPLC analysis

In this work,the nano-g-C₃N₄/Ui O-66-NH₂composite was prepared by one-step solvothermal method.The as-prepared composite was characterized by scanning electron microscopy,Brunner-Emmet-Teller measurement,energy dispersive spectrometer,X-ray diffraction,and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.By using nano-g-C₃N₄/Ui O-66-NH₂composite as sorbent,a dispersive solid-phase extraction coupled with high-performance liquid chromatogra...     

液相色谱-串联质谱法测定食品中合成色素

提出了液相色谱-串联质谱法测定食品中8种合成色素柠檬黄、苋菜红、胭脂红、日落黄、诱惑红、亮蓝、赤藓红和偶氮玉红的含量。固体(半固体)样品经乙醇-氨水-水(70+1+29)溶液溶解,所得滤液烘干后用水溶解,经Waters Atlantis dC18色谱柱(2.1 mm×150 mm,5μm)分离,用甲醇和10 mmol.L-1乙酸铵溶液以不同体积比混合进行梯度洗脱,采用电喷雾正离子模式串联质谱检测。8种合成色素的质量浓度均在50μg.L-1以内与其峰面积呈线性关系,检出限(3S/N)在0.003～0.020 mg.kg-1之间。方法应用于食品样品中8种合成色素的测定,回收率在83.0%～112.0%之间,测定值的相对标准偏差(n=6)均小于5%。     

Fabrication of β-cyclodextrin-coated poly (diallyldimethylammonium chloride)-functionalized graphene composite film modified glassy carbon-rotating disk electrode and its application for simultaneous electrochemical determination colorants of sunset yellow and tartrazine

We proposed a green and facile approach for the synthesis of β-cyclodextrin-coated poly(diallyldimethylammonium chloride)-functionalized graphene composite film (β-CD-PDDA-Gr) by using l-ascorbic acid (l-AA) as the reducing agent at room temperature. The β-CD-PDDA-Gr composite film modified glassy carbon-rotating disk electrode (GC-RDE) was then developed for the sensitive simultaneous determination of two synthetic food colorants: sunset yellow (SY) and tartrazine (TT). By cyclic voltammetry (CV), the peak currents of SY and TT increased obviously on the developed electrochemical sensor. The kinetic parameters, such as diffusion coefficient D and standard heterogeneous rate constant k_b, were estimated by linear sweep voltammetry (LSV). Under the optimal conditions, the differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) signals of SY and TT on the β-CD-PDDA-Gr modified GC-RDE were significantly enhanced. The enhanced anodic peak currents represented the excellent analytical performance of simultaneous detection of SY and TT in the range of 5.0 × 10⁻⁸ to 2.0 × 10⁻⁵ mol L⁻¹, with a low limit of detection (LOD) of 1.25 × 10⁻⁸ mol L⁻¹ for SY and 1.43 × 10⁻⁸ mol L⁻¹ for TT (S N⁻¹ = 3). This proposed method displayed outstanding selectivity, good stability and acceptable repeatability and reproducibility, and also has been used to simultaneously determine SY and TT in some commercial soft drinks with satisfactory results. The obtained results were compared to HPLC of analysis for those two colorants and no significant differences were found. By the treatment of the experimental data, the electrochemical reaction mechanisms of SY and TT both involved a one-electron-one-proton-transfer process.     

Azo dyes degradation using TiO2-Pt/graphene oxide and TiO2-Pt/reduced graphene oxide photocatalysts under UV and natural sunlight irradiation

The photocatalytic degradation of azo dyes with different structures (amaranth, sunset yellow and tartrazine) using TiO₂-Pt nanoparticles (TPt), TiO₂-Pt/graphene oxide (TPt-GO) and TiO₂-Pt/reduced graphene oxide (TPt-rGO) composites were investigated in the presence of UV and natural sunlight irradiation. The composites were prepared by a combined chemical-thermal method and characterized by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), Infrared (FTIR) and UV–Vis spectroscopy. The modification of TiO₂-Pt with graphene oxide shifted its optical absorption edge towards the visible region and increased its photocatalytic activity under UV and natural sunlight irradiation. The efficiency of catalysts on azo dyes degradation (in similar conditions) reached high values (above 99%) under sunlight conditions, proving the remarkable photocatalytic activities of obtained composites. TPt-GO nanocomposite exhibited higher photoactivity than TPt or TPt-rGO, demonstrating degradation efficiencies of 99.56% for amaranth, 99.15% for sunset yellow and 96.23% for tartrazine. The dye photodegradation process follows a pseudo-first-order kinetic with respect to the Langmuir-Hinshelwood reaction mechanism. A direct dependence between azo dyes degradation rate and chemical structure of dyes has been observed.     

Selective separation and determination of the synthetic colorants in beverages by magnetic solid‐phase dispersion extraction based on a Fe3O4/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite followed by high‐performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection

A facile adsorbent, a nanocomposite of Fe₃O₄ and reduced graphene oxide, was fabricated for the selective separation and enrichment of synthetic aromatic azo colorants by magnetic solid‐phase dispersion extraction. The nanocomposite was synthesized in a one‐step reduction reaction and characterized by atomic force microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, X‐ray diffraction and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller analysis. The colorants in beverages were quickly adsorbed onto the surface of the nanocomposite with strong π–π interactions between colorants and reduced graphene oxide, and separated with the assistance of an external magnetic field. Moreover, the four colorants in beverages were detected at different wavelengths by high performance liquid chromatography with diode array detection. A linear dependence of peak area was obtained over 0.05–10 μg/mL with the limits of detection of 10.02, 11.90, 10.41, 15.91 ng/mL for tartrazine, allure red, amaranth, and new coccine, respectively (signal to noise = 3). The recoveries for the spiked colorants were in the range of 88.95–95.89% with the relative standard deviation less than 2.66%. The results indicated that the nanocomposite of Fe₃O₄ and reduced graphene oxide could be used as an excellent selective adsorbent for aromatic compounds and has potential applications in sample pretreatment.     

Electrochemical Determination of Tartrazine in Foods by Voltammetry with a Screen-printed Carbon/Chitosan-MnO2 Microcomposite Electrode

This paper presents a new application for a screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE) modified with chitosan (Cs) and manganese oxide (II). This new electrode (Cs-Mn_OX/SPCE) was applied in the detection of tartrazine (TZ) by linear scan voltammetry (LSV). The anodic peak current for TZ increased by nearly 500 % compared with Cs/SPCE and unmodified SPCE. The surface of the electrode was characterized by cyclic voltammetry. The detection limit was 0.06 μmol/L. The relative standard deviations (RSDs) were between 1.0 and 6.0 % (n=15). The accuracy of the new method was evaluated with real samples spiked with known quantities of TZ.