Ion chromatographic determination of perchlorate in foods by on-line enrichment and suppressed conductivity detection |
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Authors: | Niemann Richard A Krynitsky Alexander J Nortrup David A |
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Affiliation: | Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA. richard.neimann@fda.hhs.gov |
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Abstract: | Systemic uptake of perchlorate anion, a rocket fuel component and potential thyroid function disruptor, by leafy vegetables and other crops grown in contaminated waters is a public health concern. A column-switching anion-exchange chromatographic method with suppressed conductivity detection, described in this paper, achieved a 3-6 microg/kg method limit of quantitation in analysis of the wet weight edible portion of cantaloupe, carrots, lettuce, and spinach samples with field-incurred perchlorate. A test portion was blended with dilute nitric acid, and the extract was filtered under vacuum. A portion of the measured filtrate was acidified to pH approximately 2 by addition of cation-exchange resin, 4 mL was passed through a graphitized carbon cleanup column, and an aliquot of a collected fraction was pushed through a short precolumn for anion extraction, enrichment, and injection onto the analytical column. Statistical comparison with determination by tandem mass spectrometry-ion chromatography analysis of untreated filtrate revealed that the difference between means was not significant at the 95% confidence level (P value > or = 0.12) for crops tested. In addition, the method was applied to cooked vegetables processed as baby food. |
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