Cooking at high temperatures causes a chemical reaction between certain sugars and asparagine which causes acrylamide formation. In this technical note, we explore how to use Novum™ SLE tubes to clean up a coffee matrix in order to quantitate known acrylamide levels. The recovery is especially significant when you consider the polar nature of the acrylamide (LogP -0.27). In addition to high recoveries (>90 %), the low values for the standard deviation and %CV indicates method reproducibility.
A method coupling gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) and multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) tracks lipid markers of decomposition in commingled remains.
This week's top stories on the Chromatography Online website spotlight LCGC International's new SFC-focused interview series charting the technique's rise alongside LC and GC, complemented by a practical GC data-reporting refresher and a study using chromatography to detect trace pesticides in tap water.
Headspace gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS) and gas chromatography-olfactometry-mass spectrometry (GC-O-MS) reveal aroma compounds in two Sichuan pepper oils.