Harnessing the Power of Multi-Hyphenation in Food Flavour and Odour Analysis

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ColumnThe Column-03-21-2012
Volume 8
Issue 5
Pages: 11–15

Hyphenated approaches to analysis have received much attention over the last three decades to the extent that techniques such as GC?MS, GC?FTIR and LC?MS have ? in the relevant fields ? become indispensable parts of the analyst?s arsenal. This concept has been extended to include multi-hyphenated techniques, where the chromatography is preceded by analyte extraction from a sample matrix. In the field of GC?MS, examples include thermal, sorptive or headspace extraction, with subsequent preconcentration, for instance, by thermal desorption (TD).

Hyphenated approaches to analysis have received much attention over the last three decades to the extent that techniques such as GC–MS, GC–FTIR and LC–MS have – in the relevant fields – become indispensable parts of the analyst’s arsenal. This concept has been extended to include multi-hyphenated techniques, where the chromatography is preceded by analyte extraction from a sample matrix. In the field of GC–MS, examples include thermal, sorptive or headspace extraction, with subsequent preconcentration, for instance, by thermal desorption (TD).

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