title: Liquid chromatographic determination of saccharin in beverages and desserts: complementary collaborative study.
abstract: A complementary collaborative study was conducted on a liquid chromatographic method for determination of saccharin in accordance with the latest international recommendations. One industrial and 6 official food control laboratories analyzed 3 samples of a juice, a soft drink, and a dessert at concentration levels of 26-90 mg/L, 33-73 mg/L, and 56-147 mg/kg, respectively. Blind duplicates and a blank were supplied for each type of material at each concentration level. The beverage was chromatographed directly and the dessert was extracted with ethanol before chromatography. Average recoveries were 95-107%. The reproducibility relative standard deviations were 6.4-7.3% for the juice, 9.2-20.6% for the soft drink, and 13.4-16.2% for the dessert. The outlier percentage was 14.3%. The results were compared with those of an earlier collaborative study by Nordic laboratories and with general collaborative results obtained by AOAC.
authors.affiliation: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Food Research Laboratory, Espoo.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Sjöberg
mesh_terms: D001628:Beverages / Q000032:analysis*; D002853:Chromatography, Liquid; D005504:Food Analysis; D012439:Saccharin / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D012439:Saccharin