FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2005, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (5): 186-188.

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Determination of Cyclamate in Foods by Gas Chromatography with ECD or MSD

 PENG  Yan, WU  Wei-Dong, JI  Cai-Ni, CAI  Yi-Na   

  1. Food Laboratory, Shenzhen Exit-Entry Inspection and Quarantine Bureau
  • Online:2005-05-15 Published:2011-09-19

Abstract: A rapid and simple gas chromatographic method for determination of cyclamate was developed in food samples such as plum, jelly, candy, beverage and so on. This method had been confirmed by gas chromatography with mass-selective detection. Cyclamate could react with sodium nitrite when vitriol existing and then produce cyclohexane nitrite, which could be extracted by hexane and can easily be detected in food samples with Agilent 6890 gas chromatography. This method was successfully applied to the analysis of several food samples and the recoveries for these samples ranged from 70%~130%. The linearity was 0.99914 and the limit of determination was 1.0mg/kg.

Key words: cyclamate, GC-ECD, GC-MS