Comparison of four extraction/methylation analytical methods to measure fatty acid composition by gas chromatography in meat

Four different extraction-derivatization methods commonly used for fatty acid analysis in meat (in situ or one-step method, saponification method, classic method and a combination of classic extraction and saponification derivatization) were tested. The in situ method had low recovery and variation. The saponification method showed the best balance between recovery, precision, repeatability and reproducibility. The classic method had high recovery and acceptable variation values, except for the polyunsaturated fatty acids, showing higher variation than the former methods. The combination of extraction and methylation steps had great recovery values, but the precision, repeatability and reproducibility were not acceptable. Therefore the saponification method would be more convenient for polyunsaturated fatty acid analysis, whereas the in situ method would be an alternative for fast analysis. However the classic method would be the method of choice for the determination of the different lipid classes.     

按独立组元计算复杂化学平衡的方法

本文通过分析独立组元的本质,提出了一个按独立组元来计算复杂化学平衡的方法。这个方法中的未知数和方程数比现有的自由能最小化法、质量作用方程组的方法和反应进度的方法中的未知数和方程数显著减少,因而计算过程大为简化。例如,对于计算一个由3个元素10个组元组成的复杂化学平衡体系来说,若采用其它方法须用电子计算机,而采用独立组元法仅须使用袖珍可编程序计算器即可完成。本文叙述了独立组元法的基本原理和具体方法,并根据理论分析和计算实践,将独立组元法与其它方法的优劣作了对比。     

Crude fat, diethyl ether extraction, in feed, cereal grain, and forage (Randall/Soxtec/submersion method): collaborative study

A method for determining crude fat in animal feed, cereal grain, and forage (plant tissue) was collaboratively studied. Crude fat was extracted from the animal feed, cereal grain, or forage material with diethyl ether by the Randall method, also called the Soxtec method or the submersion method. The proposed submersion method considerably decreases the extraction time required to complete a batch of samples. The increase in throughput is very desirable in the quest for faster turnaround times and the greater efficiency in the use of labor. In addition, this method provides for reclamation of the solvent as a step of the method. The submersion method for fat extraction was previously studied for meat and meat products and was accepted as AOAC Official Method 991.36. Fourteen blind samples were sent to 12 collaborators in the United States, Sweden, Canada, and Germany. The within-laboratory relative standard deviation (repeatability) ranged from 1.09 to 9.26% for crude fat. Among-laboratory (including within) relative standard deviation (reproducibility) ranged from 1.0 to 21.0%. The method is recommended for Official First Action.     

Crude fat, hexanes extraction, in feed, cereal grain, and forage (Randall/Soxtec/submersion method): collaborative study

A method for determining crude fat in animal feed, cereal grain, and forage (plant tissue) was collaboratively studied. Crude fat was extracted from the animal feed, cereal grain, or forage material with hexanes by the Randall method, also called the Soxtec method or the submersion method. The use of hexanes provides for an alternative to diethyl ether for fat extractions. The proposed submersion method considerably decreases the extraction time required to complete a batch of samples compared to Soxhlet. The increase in throughput is very desirable in the quest for faster turnaround times and the greater efficiency in the use of labor. In addition, this method provides for reclamation of the solvent as a step of the method. The submersion method for fat extraction was previously studied for meat and meat products and was accepted as AOAC Official Method 991.36. Fourteen blind samples were sent to 14 collaborators in the United States, Sweden, Canada, and Germany. The within-laboratory relative standard deviation (repeatability) ranged from 1.23 to 5.80% for crude fat. Among-laboratory (including within) relative standard deviation (reproducibility) ranged from 1.88 to 14.1%. The method is recommended for Official First Action.     

汽油族组成的近红外光谱快速测定

以荧光指示剂吸附色谱法（FIA）测定汽油族组成结果为基础，采用近红外光谱和化学计量学方法建立了快速、准确测定催化裂化馏出口汽油族组成（饱和烃、烯烃和芳烃）的分析模型；试验表明，该法分析速度快、重复性好、成本低，特别适用于生产中间控制分析。     

Computer-assisted optimization of selectivity (mobile phase,pH, and ion concentration) in high-perfomance liquid chromatography

A computer-assisted method is presented for optimization of mobile phase composition in reverse-phase and normal-phase HPLC. The method is based on window diagrams, but only three preliminary tests are required. The method is successfully applied to two examples and there is good agreement between predicted and experimental results. Optimal values for ion concentration and pH in ion chromatography from a published optimization method are compared to values calculated using the computer-assisted method presented in this paper. The same results are obtained, but the method presented here is simpler and faster than previously published one.     

A high-accuracy method of analysis of 19-norandrosterone in human urine as utilised for the international laboratory intercomparison CCQM-P68

A high-accuracy exact-matching isotope dilution mass spectrometry (IDMS) method for 19-norandrosterone (19-NA) in human urine was developed at NMIA for the certification of a freeze-dried human urine reference material (CRM NMIA MX002). The method utilised GC/HRMS analysis following hydrolysis, solvent extraction, HPLC fractionation and derivatisation. The method development included investigation of all potential analytical biases for the different stages of the method and included development of a confirmatory LC/MS/MS method. The measurement uncertainty of the reference method was rigorously investigated with the achieved expanded uncertainty being less than 4% at the 95% level of confidence. The method was used in the Comité Consultatif pour la Quantité de Matière (CCQM) pilot study CCQM-P68 which was an interlaboratory intercomparison for the analysis of 19-NA in human urine in which four national metrology institutes (NMIs) participated in. The agreement in the results from the NMIA method with those from the other NMIs was excellent.     

Multiresidue method for the analysis of emerging contaminants in wastewater by ultra performance liquid chromatography-time-of-flight mass spectrometry

A multiresidue method for screening of emerging contaminants in aquatic environments was developed. The method was based on sample pretreatment with solid phase extraction (SPE) and analysis with an ultra performance liquid chromatograph-time-of-flight mass spectrometer (UPLC-TOF-MS). The method was optimized and tested with standard solutions of model compounds containing 84 pesticides and pharmaceuticals. Four different SPE sorbents were evaluated to gain maximum recovery for the analytes. For the final procedure a combination of two different sorbents was chosen. In spite of high matrix suppression, the method quantification limits (MQLs) were acceptable. Therefore, the method can be used for screening known target compounds. The applicability of the method for posttarget and nontarget screening will be reported later. To preliminarily assess the quantitative performance of the method, some compounds in wastewater effluent were quantified using the standard addition method. Three pesticides and eight pharmaceuticals were found in concentrations up to ～2200 ng/L.     

中药胡芦巴磷脂成分的X射—线荧光光谱法直接测定

本文首次采用X-射线荧光光谱法直接分析了中药胡芦巴总磷脂成分含量及磷脂组分的分布。该法具有操作简便、快速、准确度高、精密度好、检出限低和样品用量少等优点。本法将是适用于补益中药活性成分磷脂分析的新方法。     

Real space Hartree-Fock configuration interaction method for complex lateral quantum dot molecules

We present unrestricted Hartree-Fock method coupled with configuration interaction (CI) method (URHF-CI) suitable for the calculation of ground and excited states of large number of electrons localized by complex gate potentials in quasi-two-dimensional quantum dot molecules. The method employs real space finite difference method, incorporating strong magnetic field, for calculating single particle states. The Hartree-Fock method is employed for the calculation of direct and exchange interaction contributions to the ground state energy. The effects of correlations are included in energies and directly in the many-particle wave functions via CI method using a limited set of excitations above the Fermi level. The URHF-CI method and its performance are illustrated on the example of ten electrons confined in a two-dimensional quantum dot molecule.     

铬铁矿中铁的快速测定方法研究

研究了铬铁矿中铁的测定方法问题。基于测定铬铁矿中铬的溶样方法原理和对传统无汞测铁程序的改进研究,推荐了一个测定铬铁矿中铁的快速方法模式:试样经沸腾硫酸湿烧(～330℃)、磷-硫混合酸溶解、直接用三氯化钛溶液还原铁(Ⅲ→Ⅱ)、过量钛(Ⅲ)自然被氧化后,用常规法滴定之。所提供的快速方法测得之结果准确可靠(RSD=0.55%～0.80%,n=8),适于普遍推广应用。     

电感耦合等离子体发射光谱法测定锌精矿中的铟

应用电感耦合等离子体发射光谱法测定锌精矿中的铟,确定了最佳工作条件,选择了最佳分析谱线,并利用标准加入法和基体匹配法验证了方法的准确性。样品用氟化氢铵、盐酸、硝酸、高氯酸溶样,用盐酸定容。结果表明,电感耦合等离子体发射光谱法与萃取分离盐酸羟胺示波极谱法测定的铟含量结果一致。方法准确,快速,加标回收率为99.6%～101.7%,相对标准偏差为0.97%～2.1%。     

Development of a new QuEChERS method based on dry ice for the determination of 168 pesticides in paprika using tandem mass spectrometry

This study describes a new QuEChERS method referred to as the dry ice-partitioning QuEChERS method. This current method can be differentiated from the other QuEChERS methods in the sense that it uses dry ice rather than salts or buffers to extract and partition pesticides in the first extraction step. The dry ice-partitioning QuEChERS method consists of extraction method A (for detection of the acetonitrile layer) and extraction method B (for detection of both acetonitrile and aqueous layers). The extraction efficiency was then compared with the citrate-buffering QuEChERS method by means of recovery. Recovery values of the tested 168 pesticides were above 76%, with relative standard deviations of less than 20%. Certain problematic pesticides, including benfuracarb, carbosulfan, dichlofluanid, probenazole, pymetrozine, tolylfluanid, TFNA, and TFNG evidenced acceptable recoveries via the dry ice-partitioning QuEChERS method compared to the less than 70% recoveries of the citrate-buffering QuEChERS method examined herein. The matrix effect of paprika on the method developed herein was not significant, and matrix-matched calibration was performed well, with an r(2)≥0.99. The dry ice-partitioning QuEChERS method is capable of detecting the aqueous layer as well as the acetonitrile layer; this interesting feature makes it worth in application as an alternative QuEChERS method for the multiresidue analysis of pesticides within a broad polarity range in various matrices.     

冷焰ICP-MS法测定高纯稀土氧化物中铁和钙的研究

用冷焰技术对高纯稀土氧化物中Ｆｅ和Ｃａ的分析方法进行了研究。估算了测定范围和检出限,探讨了内标元素对基体影响的校正作用,测定了加标回收率,对半定量法（ＴＱ）和定量法（ＱＡ）的结果作了比较。表明冷焰条件下,痕量Ｆｅ的测定是可行的,但Ｃａ的测定结果仍不理想;ＱＡ法明显优于ＴＱ法。     

Quantitative analysis of tricyclic antidepressants in serum from psychiatric patients

A method for the quantitative analysis of tricyclic antidepressants in the serum of psychiatric patients is described. The method can be used for determining amitriptyline, nortriptyline, imipramine, demethyllimipramine, clomipramine, demethylclomipramine, trimipramine and protriptyline. The method consists in a series of extraction steps followed by gas chromatography with flame-ionization detector. The drugs are determined in their native state. The internal standard method is used for the quantitation.     

一种提高化妆品中甲醛含量检测的稳定性和灵敏度的双波长光谱方法

提出了一种基于双波长光谱法(以500 nm吸光度为基准并结合414 nm处的吸光度)快速测定化妆品中甲醛含量的方法。结果表明:采用单波长的计算方法(不考虑基线漂移)产生的误差时,平行试验结果之间的相对标准偏差(RSD)可达11.5%,而该方法的RSD最大仅为0.46%。同时该方法能够有效地校正扣除萃取液颜色和基线漂移的影响,且定量下限为7.4 mg/kg。该方法具有分析时间短、操作便捷、灵敏度高、结果准确的优点,适用于化妆品中甲醛的检测。     

A combination of the tree-code and IPS method to simulate large scale systems by molecular dynamics

An IPS/Tree method which is a combination of the isotropic periodic sum (IPS) method and tree-based method was developed for large-scale molecular dynamics simulations, such as biological and polymer systems, that need hundreds of thousands of molecules. The tree-based method uses a hierarchical tree structure to reduce the calculation cost of long-range interactions. IPS/Tree is an efficient method like IPS/DFFT, which is a combination of the IPS method and FFT in calculating large-scale systems that require massively parallel computers. The IPS method has two different versions: IPSn and IPSp. The basic idea is the same expect for the fact that the IPSn method is applied to calculations for point charges, while the IPSp method is used to calculate polar molecules. The concept of the IPS/Tree method is available for both IPSn and IPSp as IPSn/Tree and IPSp/Tree. Even though the accuracy of the Coulomb forces with tree-based method is well known, the accuracy for the combination of the IPS and tree-based methods is unclear. Therefore, in order to evaluate the accuracy of the IPS/Tree method, we performed molecular dynamics simulations for 32,000 bulk water molecules, which contains around 10(5) point charges. IPSn/Tree and IPSp/Tree were both applied to study the interaction calculations of Coulombic forces. The accuracy of the Coulombic forces and other physical properties of bulk water systems were evaluated. The IPSp/Tree method not only has reasonably small error in estimating Coulombic forces but the error was almost the same as the theoretical error of the ordinary tree-based method. These facts show that the algorithm of the tree-based method can be successfully applied to the IPSp method. On the other hand, the IPSn/Tree has a relatively large error, which seems to have been derived from the interaction treatment of the original IPSn method. The self-diffusion and radial distribution functions of water were calculated each by both the IPSn/Tree and IPSp/Tree methods, where both methods showed reasonable agreement with the Ewald method. In conclusion, the IPSp/Tree method is a potentially fast and sufficiently accurate technique for predicting transport coefficients and liquid structures of water in a homogeneous system.     

TXRF法测定松花粉中的9种生命元素

建立了微波消解前处理,全反射X射线荧光法(TXRF)同时测定松花粉中K、Ca、Ti、Mn、Fe、Ni、Cu、Zn和Rb9种生命元素含量的分析方法.松花粉原料经过微波消解前处理后,采用全反射X射线荧光光谱净计数、QXAS分析软件解谱和单一内标法进行定量分析.比较了干灰化法、湿消解法和微波消解法3种前处理方法的效果,并确立微波消解法作为样品前处理方法.用微波消解- TXRF法测定了花粉标准物质中的上述9种元素,并计算得到其仪器检出限(LLD)为0.002～0.054 mg/L,方法检出限(LDM)为0.004～0.122 mg/kg.TXRF法测定各元素的相对标准偏差(RSDs)为1.0％～5.5％.该方法操作简单、样品用量少、检出限低,对实际样品松花粉的测定结果与ICP - MS法无显著性差异.     

气相色谱测定牦牛骨中脂肪酸的甲酯化方法比较

利用气相色谱（GC）技术,采用酸水解提取脂质,比较了6种甲酯化法（乙酰氯-甲醇法、H₂SO₄-甲醇法、HCl-甲醇法、KOH-甲醇法、KOH-甲醇+H₂SO₄-甲醇法和KOH-甲醇+HCl-甲醇法）对脂肪酸测定的影响,优选牦牛骨中脂肪酸测定的最佳方法。37种脂肪酸标准样品在0.28~250.00 mg/L范围内线性关系良好,相关系数均大于0.99（除C4：0外）。碱酯化法和酸碱结合法几乎无法测出牦牛骨中的脂肪酸,其测得的总脂肪酸含量小于0.20 g/100 g。乙酰氯-甲醇法测得的总脂肪酸含量（13.61 g/100 g）显著高于H₂SO₄-甲醇法（总脂肪酸含量为11.68 g/100 g）和HCl-甲醇法（总脂肪酸含量为3.18 g/100 g）测得的结果。乙酰氯-甲醇法和H₂SO₄-甲醇法的日内和日间精密度分别为0.27%~8.60%和0.34%~2.64%,两种方法中脂肪酸的回收率为83.06%~105.54%。结果表明,酸水解-乙酰氯-甲醇法是牦牛骨中脂肪酸测定的最佳方法。C18：1n9c、C16：0、C18：0和共轭亚油酸（CLA）是牦牛骨的主要脂肪酸,其总和达脂肪酸总量的85%以上,饱和脂肪酸与不饱和脂肪酸含量比值约为1：2。牦牛骨中脂肪酸的研究为骨资源脂质的有效利用提供了重要依据。     

Performance of a proposed determinative method for p-TSA in rainbow trout fillet tissue and bridging the proposed method with a method for total chloramine-T residues in rainbow trout fillet tissue

Chloramine-T is an effective drug for controlling fish mortality caused by bacterial gill disease. As part of the data required for approval of chloramine-T use in aquaculture, depletion of the chloramine-T marker residue (para-toluenesulfonamide; p-TSA) from edible fillet tissue of fish must be characterized. Declaration of p-TSA as the marker residue for chloramine-T in rainbow trout was based on total residue depletion studies using a method that used time consuming and cumbersome techniques. A simple and robust method recently developed is being proposed as a determinative method for p-TSA in fish fillet tissue. The proposed determinative method was evaluated by comparing accuracy and precision data with U.S. Food and Drug Administration criteria and by bridging the method to the former method for chloramine-T residues. The method accuracy and precision fulfilled the criteria for determinative methods; accuracy was 92.6, 93.4, and 94.6% with samples fortified at 0.5X, 1X, and 2X the expected 1000 ng/g tolerance limit for p-TSA, respectively. Method precision with tissue containing incurred p-TSA at a nominal concentration of 1000 ng/g ranged from 0.80 to 8.4%. The proposed determinative method was successfully bridged with the former method. The concentrations of p-TSA developed with the proposed method were not statistically different at p < 0.05 from p-TSA concentrations developed with the former method.