Capillary electromigration methods for fatty acids determination in vegetable and marine oils: A review

Fatty acids determination is of paramount importance for quality control and suitable labeling of edible oils, required by regulatory agencies in several countries, and fast methods for this determination are worldly desired. This review article aimed to explore the available analytical methods for vegetable and marine oils analyses employing CE, which can be a straightforward and faster alternative than GC methods for fatty acid determination, considering some purposes. CE usually offers the possibility of a rapid analysis with a simple preparation of the sample, without requiring specific columns, which are inherent advantages of the technique. Instrumental conditions and the key points about fatty acids determination employing the technique are highlighted, and the main challenges and perspectives are also approached. Potential use of CE for edible oil analyses has been demonstrated for research and routine, which can be of interest for industries, regulatory agencies, and edible oil researchers. Therefore, we have explored the analytical approaches described in the last decades, intending to spread the interest of CE methods for fatty acid monitoring, label accuracy assessment, and food authenticity evaluation of edible oils.     

Validation and quality control of methylmercury determinations by means of capillary electrophoresis

Methyl-Hg is one of the most dangerous pollutants in the environment. It is highly toxic and accumulates through the food chain. Tuna fish especially tends to concentrate Hg in the form of methyl-Hg. Quality assurance is a well established routine in analytical laboratories to control the variability of analytical results and to maintain adequate stability, detection power and reproducibility. Capillary electrophoresis (CE) has shown in recent years powerful capabilities for the resolution and analysis of very complex samples. The high resolution and peak capacity characteristics of this technique could be used favourably in speciation studies of organo-Hg compounds. Since the time needed for separation is usually very short in this technique, it lends itself to routine analysis. The application of quality control approaches in the analysis of methyl-Hg in tuna freeze-dried materials using CE is reported.     

Analysis of natural food pigments by capillary electrophoresis

Lac, cochineal, safflower, gardenia, Monascus and elderberry pigments are used as food color additives in Japan. These natural pigments can be analyzed by capillary electrophoresis (CE). CE has several advantages over thin layer chromatography, gas chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography, such as low capillary cost, reduced operating costs, small sample amounts, low production of waste materials and short analysis time. CE is shown to be a useful technique for the analysis of these natural food pigments and the pigments extracted from commercial food samples by solid-phase extraction method.     

Application of capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry for determining organic food contaminants and residues

Food contamination continues to be a serious problem around the world. Surveillance of chemical contaminants in foods is important not only for public health but also because of the negative economic impact of contamination. From the analytical perspective, analysis of contaminants in food is an extremely challenging area. There is a wide variety of questions, ranging from the quantification of extremely low levels of individual components to the detailed assessment and evaluation of the analytical technique possibilities. This review considers the applications of CE coupled to MS detection (CE-MS) for the analysis of organic contaminants in food. Analytical information on sample concentration techniques, as well as on the CE separation conditions and recoveries obtained from water and food are provided. Different sections include several fields of application, such as pesticides, drug residues, or toxic formed during food processing in different matrices. A number of tables report a comprehensive listing of CE-MS applications. As a result, this work presents an update overview on the principal application of CE-MS together with a discussion of their main advantages and drawbacks, and an outline of future trends on analysis of organic contaminants.     

流动注射-毛细管电泳联用及应用进展

流动注射是一种高效进样及在线溶液处理手段。毛细管电泳是一种高分离效率、高选择性的分析技术,但传统的毛细管电泳间歇式进样方式效率低且难用于过程分析,将流动注射进样技术与毛细管电泳结合,既弥补了毛细管电泳的进样缺陷,又可兼具两者的优点。有关两种技术的联用一直都在探索之中。文中对近年流动注射一毛细管电泳联用及应用研究进行了综述。     

Capillary electrophoresis and ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography methods in clinical monitoring of creatinine in human urine: A comparative study

Creatinine is an important diagnostic marker and is also used as a standardization tool for the quantitative evaluation of exogenous/endogenous substances in urine. This study aimed at evaluating and comparing three analytical approaches, based on hyphenations of different separation [two-dimensional capillary isotachophoresis (CITP–CITP), capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC)] and detection [conductivity (CD), ultraviolet (UV), tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)] techniques, for their ability to provide reliable clinical data along with their suitability for the routine clinical use (cost, simplicity, sample throughput). The developed UHPLC–MS/MS, CITP–CITP–CD, and CZE–UV methods were characterized by favorable performance parameters, such as linearity (r ˃ 0.99), precision (relative standard deviation, 0.22–2.97% for the creatinine position in analytical profiles), and recovery (87.1–115.1%). Clinical data, obtained from the analysis of 24 human urine samples by a reference enzymatic method, were comparable with those obtained by the tested methods (Passing–Bablok regression and Bland–Altman analysis), approving their usefulness for the routine clinical use. In this context, the UHPLC–MS/MS method provides benefits of enhanced orthogonality/accuracy and high sample throughput (threefold shorter total analysis times than the CE methods), whereas advantages of the CE methods for routine labs are simplicity and low cost of both the instrumentation and measurements.     

Detection of microbial food contaminants and their products by capillary electromigration techniques

This work reviews the different analytical strategies based on capillary electromigration techniques developed for detecting microbial contaminants and their products in food matrices. Namely, this work presents an exhaustive and critical review, including works published till March 2007, on CE methods developed to detect and identify contaminants of microbial origin that represent a hazard to humans in foods. First, an overview on the strategies adopted for the analysis of intact microorganisms is presented. Next, CE methodologies based on the analysis of microbial constituents, including those based on genomics and proteomics approaches, are described. Finally, CE methods developed for detecting microbial toxins are discussed.     

毛细管电泳技术在疾病预防控制领域的应用、发展与挑战

自1989年出现商品化的仪器以来,毛细管电泳（CE）技术在多个应用领域都取得了长足的进步与发展,重复性和准确性方面也有很大提升。能力验证样品分析的满意结果也显示了CE具备法规要求的准确定量能力。在疾病预防控制领域（简称"疾控"）CE也展现出很多独具特色的应用,成为不可或缺的技术之一。在聚合酶链式反应产物分析、核酸序列测定、DNA变异和分型分析、食源性致病微生物分析及疫苗分析等工作中CE发挥了重要作用。应对突发疫情或公共卫生事件如食物中毒时,除了通过非靶标分析尽快锁定目标物外,还需要对大量样品做出快速而准确的分析,高通量和高灵敏的CE就十分适合解决这一问题。在公共卫生理化检验以确保食品、保健食品、特殊医学用途食品、化妆品和消毒产品等的安全中,CE也发挥了不可或缺的作用。作为一种使用较少危险化学品的环境友好方法,在需要按照标准或规范进行的疾控实验室常规检测中,CE仍受制于标准方法的缺失,未能发挥其应有的作用。但简单、快速、经济、耐用、高效的CE分离一旦与高灵敏通用检测器联用,必将更加从容地应对疾控领域中的各种挑战,发挥更大的作用。本文综述了2010~2019年CE在疾控领域的应用,分析了CE在疾控领域发展的机遇和挑战,对CE在疾控领域的发展前景进行了展望。     

毛细管电泳分析中的富集技术及其应用

毛细管电泳（CE）具有分析速度快、分离效率高、样品消耗少、成本低廉等优点,已被应用于无机离子、有机小分子、蛋白质、核酸及细胞等的分析中。CE中最常用的检测方式是紫外检测（UV）,但由于常规进样样品体积小、检测光程短,CE-UV的灵敏度往往不能满足复杂样品中痕量物质直接分析的要求。CE中的在柱富集技术包括堆积、动态pH界面、吹扫和瞬间等速电泳等,可在很大程度上提高CE-UV的检测灵敏度;另外,固相和液相微萃取技术及其与在柱富集技术相结合应用在CE中也能净化样品基质,进一步提高富集倍数,改善分析灵敏度,从而拓宽了CE-UV在复杂样品分析中的应用范围。     

Thirty years of capillary electrophoresis in food analysis laboratories: potential applications

CE has generated considerable interest in the research community since instruments were introduced by different trading companies in the 1990s. Nowadays, CE is popular due to its simplicity, speed, highly efficient separations and minimal solvent and reagent consumption; it can also be included as a useful technique in the nanotechnology field and it covers a wide range of specific applications in different fields (chemical, pharmaceutical, genetic, clinical, food and environmental). CE has been very well evaluated in research laboratories for several years, and different new approaches to improve sensitivity (one of the main drawbacks of CE) and robustness have been proposed. However, this technique is still not well accepted in routine laboratories for food analysis. Researching in data bases, it is easy to find several electrophoretic methods to determine different groups of analytes and sometimes they are compared in terms of sensitivity, selectivity, precision and applicability with other separation techniques. Although these papers frequently prove the potential of this methodology in spiked samples, it is not common to find a discussion of the well-known complexity of the matrices to extract analytes from the sample and/or to study the interferences in the target analytes. Summarizing, the majority of CE scientific papers focus primarily on the effects upon the separation of the analytes while ignoring their behavior if these analytes are presented in real samples.     

Cloud point extraction as a sample enrichment technique for capillary electrophoresis–An overview

Abstract

Cloud point extraction (CPE) is a simple, inexpensive and green sample enrichment technique for different analytes in different matrices. In this technique surfactant solution is used at concentration above critical micelle concentration to extract the analytes from various matrices. Capillary electrophoresis (CE) and family of related techniques have emerged as powerful analytical techniques for pharmaceutical, biomedical, food and environmental analysis. In this review we have described the applications of CPE coupling with CE.     

CE methods applied to the analysis of micronutrients in foods

This article reviews the applications of CE that are relevant to the analysis of small molecules in foods. CE has been applied to a wide range of important areas of food analysis and is rapidly being established as an alternative technique to chromatographic methods including HPLC and GC within analytical food and research laboratories. In recent years the analysis of food by CE has become more frequent and important and as such a variety of compounds have been separated and quantified. Although many other analytes have been detected by CE, this review will highlight areas relating primarily to the rather broad chemical classes of free amino acids, carbohydrates, organic acids, vitamins and a variety of antioxidants. In addition, information relating to the analyte, sample matrix, mode of CE employed, scope of the methodology and the detection and derivatization of the small molecules are considered and discussed.     

高效毛细管电泳在食品安全检测中的应用进展

近年来,食品安全问题频发,对人们的健康和社会发展造成了严重的危害,食品安全已成为人们关注的焦点问题之一。食品成分的复杂性、多样性对食品分析技术和方法提出了很高的要求。毛细管电泳(CE)由于分离模式多、分离效率高、分析速度快、试剂和样品用量少、对环境污染小等优点,在食品安全分析方面的应用日趋广泛。本综述对2009年以来CE在食品中非食用添加剂、农药残留、兽药残留、重金属离子污染、食品毒素以及食品包装材料中双酚A和塑化剂的检测方面的应用进行了总结,并对毛细管电泳在食品安全检测领域的主要发展方向进行了展望。共收录文献63篇。     

Herbicide and plant growth regulator analysis by capillary electrophoresis

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a relatively new analytical technique that is just beginning to be employed in the area of pesticide residue analysis. With the development of more sensitive detectors and in conjunction with CE separation powers, it should be a well accepted technique for pesticide residue analysis in the future. This review describes CE methods that have been developed to analyze herbicides and grow regulators in water, soil and food.     

Application of ultrasound-assisted extraction to the determination of contaminants in food and soil samples

The application of ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) to the sample preparation of environmental and food samples has increased in the last years. This technique has been used in the development of methods for the analysis of numerous contaminants, including organic compounds (pesticides, pharmaceuticals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, polyhalogenated flame retardants, etc.) and heavy metals. The aim of this work is to review the application of this extraction procedure to the analysis of contaminants in food and soil and the comparison of its use with other well-established extraction procedures. The advantages and disadvantages of this technique together with the possibility of coupling UAE with other analytical techniques will be also discussed.     

The development and application of capillary electrophoresis methods for food analysis

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) offers the analyst a number of key advantages for the analysis of the components of foods. CE offers better resolution than, say, high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), and is more adept at the simultaneous separation of a number of components of different chemistries within a single matrix. In addition, CE requires less rigorous sample cleanup procedures than HPLC, while offering the same degree of automation. However, despite these advantages, CE remains under-utilized by food analysts. Therefore, this review consolidates and discusses the currently reported applications of CE that are relevant to the analysis of foods. Some discussion is also devoted to the development of these reported methods and to the advantages/disadvantages compared with the more usual methods for each particular analysis. It is the aim of this review to give practicing food analysts an overview of the current scope of CE.     

Capillary electrophoresis for the analysis of food proteins of animal origin

In recent years, capillary electrophoresis (CE) has become an analytical technique with many applications in the study of food proteins and peptides. This review describes the existing CE methods of analysis of milk, egg, meat and fish proteins and peptides. The major developments in the application of CE to solve different problems in food technology, such as the assessment of technological processes, quality, and authenticity control of animal foods, are considered. A section dealing with future directions on the analysis of food proteins by CE is also included.     

Recent advances in enrichment techniques for trace analysis in capillary electrophoresis

CE is gaining great popularity as a well‐established separation technique for many fields such as pharmaceutical research, clinical application, environmental monitoring, and food analysis, owing to its high resolving power, rapidity, and small amount of samples and reagents required. However, the sensitivity in CE analysis is still considered as being inferior to that in HPLC analysis. Diverse enrichment methods and techniques have been increasingly developed for overcoming this issue. In this review, we summarize the recent advances in enrichment techniques containing off‐line preconcentration (sample preparation) and on‐line concentration (sample stacking) to enhancing sensitivity in CE for trace analysis over the last 5 years. Some relatively new cleanup and preconcentration methods involving the use of dispersive liquid–liquid microextraction, supercritical fluid extraction, matrix solid‐phase dispersion, etc., and the continued use and improvement of conventional SPE, have been comprehensively reviewed and proved effective preconcentration alternatives for liquid, semisolid, and solid samples. As for CE on‐line stacking, we give an overview of field amplication, sweeping, pH regulation, and transient isotachophoresis, and the coupling of multiple modes. Moreover, some limitations and comparisons related to such methods/techniques are also discussed. Finally, the combined use of various enrichment techniques and some significant attempts are proposed to further promote analytical merits in CE.     

Recent advances in the analysis of antibiotics by CE and CEC

This article reviews the most recent developments concerning the determination of antibiotics by CE and CEC. The most employed CE separation modes were CZE and MEKC although microemulsion electrokinetic capillary chromatoghraphy was also employed. For the first time, CE was coupled to MS that was applied as a specific and confirmatory detection technique for the analysis of antibiotics. The analytical characteristics of the developed methodologies as well as the different applications reported in the literature on this subject from June 2005 until May 2007 are included in this article. To give the most relevant information on this topic, the experimental conditions employed to achieve the analysis of antibiotics by CE and CEC are provided together with the main applications performed in the pharmaceutical, agrochemical, biological, food, and environmental fields, emphacizing sample preparation requirements needed in each case.