Industry: food & beverage

Ensuring that water, juice, beer, wine and other beverages, dietary supplements and food ingredients, contain low levels of contaminants and are safe to eat, but include the stated amounts of nutrients, is of primary concern to ensure a healthy life for people.

International recommendations on handling of food and analysis of their constituents have been set by WHO and additional guidelines how to analyse food substances are provided in the Food Chemicals Codex assembled by USP. Many regional authorities, including EFSA and national food government agencies are working with WHO and USP to enforce these recommendations and mitigate food fraud. Diduco has contributed by showing that analysis of anions in drinking water according to the requirements set by EPA method 300.1 which also satisfy the demands by corresponding ISO and ASTM methods, and that these analysis can be performed with a flexible equipment to which a setup for suppressed ion chromatography have been connected.

Applications

ion chromatography

Analysis of dietary supplement capsules with carnitine using a generic method for counterions

Oral L-carnitine is a dietary supplement that has been shown to reduce fatigue in elderly people with low muscular endurance, but its effects on athletes during physical activity are not well-supported. Although this endogenous compound is well-known for its involvement in the mitochondrial oxidation of long-chain fatty acids, no scientific evidence has been found that carnitine in isolation enhances fat-burning.

HILIC

Separation of selected amino acids

Amino acids are the fundamental building blocks of all proteins and therefore essential constituents of many nutritional supplements and can also be present in pharmaceutical formulations. Due to the highly hydrophilic nature and zwitterionic charge at neutral pH of many amino acids and their structurally related degradation products, hydrophilic interaction chromatography is an attractive mode of separation that require no derivatization, while evaporative light scattering enables rather sensitive detection of these poorly light-absorbing compounds.

HILIC

Separation of simple sugars and carbohydrates

Simple carbohydrates are frequent ingredients in drinks, food, dietary supplements and pharmaceutical formulations. One approach to their analysis is hydrophilic interaction chromatography combined with evaporative light scattering detection, although this might be challenging due to the possibility of reducing sugars to mutarotate and thereby change their conformation into other anomers with different retention.

ion-exclusion chromatography

Separation of organic acids by ion-exclusion chromatography

Separation of organic acids can be a challenging task due to their hydrophilic nature and structural diversity. One of the more traditional approaches to this analysis is ion exclusion chromatography, which offer complementary selectivity to other separation techniques, especially for the monovalent acids which tend to be more strongly retained in this mode.

reversed-phase

Analysis of cannabinoids in dried industrial hemp after methanol extraction

The legislation in many countries allow cultivation of industrial hemp provided that the strains do not produce high amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and other psychoactive cannabinoids classified as narcotic substances. These strains of cannabis sativa are instead typically rich in compounds such as cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabidiolic acid (CBDA).

ion chromatography

Quantification of common anions in bottled drinking water according to EPA method 300.1A

Official procedure for quality control of drinking water according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. This procedure allows quantification of the seven common inorganic anions fluoride, chloride, nitrite, bromide, nitrate, phosphate and sulfate in the ranges recommended by WHO and national authorities.

ion chromatography

Generic method for isocratic separation of fifteen common pharmaceutical counterions

Many medicines and dietary supplements are bases that carry a positive charge, and consequently these small molecules are accompanied by negatively charged counterions. Such anionic excipients may influence the properties of the pharmaceutical formulation and can also influence the effect of the active ingredient since different ion pairs can have different dissolution rates or abilities to penetrate cell walls.

ion chromatography

Analysis of dietary supplement capsules with glucosamine using a generic method for counterions

Oral glucosamine is a dietary supplement that is marketed to support the structure and function of joints and claimed to provide pain relief for people with arthritis and osteoarthritis, although there is no clear evidence that its benefit is significantly above placebo.

ion chromatography

Hydroxide gradient elution of organic acids and inorganic anions

Gradient elution is a powerful tool when aiming to separate many compounds having a wide range of different chemical characteristics. Hydroxide gradients are the most common approach in ion chromatography since they can be converted into pure water with nearly zero conductivity.

ion chromatography

Generic method for isocratic separation of ten common pharmaceutical counterions

ion chromatography

Quantification of common anions in drinking water according to EPA method 300.0A

Older version of the official procedure for quality control of drinking water according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

ion chromatography

Partial separation of structurally similar organic acids at isocratic conditions

Small organic acids are an important group of chemical compounds that needs to be analysed and quantified in many different industries. This application shows ion chromatography of a variety of organic acids using a non-optimized isocratic carbonate-based eluent.

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