title: Chloroform-methanol extraction method for determination of fat in foods: collaborative study.
abstract: A chloroform-methanol extraction method (complete extraction of fat in 3 min) for determining fat in processed and prepared foods has been studied collaboratively. Fourteen collaborators reported single replicate fat results on 7 samples representative of various food types and 2 spiked samples by the proposed method. Each sample was accompanied by a blind duplicate. For statistical purposes, the blind duplicates were treated as paired observations, and there were 2 laboratory outliers. There was a 97.9% agreement among the results from the remaining 12 collaborators and the Associate Referee for the unfortified samples. Recoveries of 93.8 and 98.3% were obtained on fortified samples, based on results obtained from 11 collaborators. The statistical analysis of the results indicate (ranges for standard deviations were Sr = 0.083-0.528, Sb = 0.101-0.379, Sd = 0.130-0.631, for fat values ranging from 1.58 to 26.91%) that this method is adequate for quantitating the fat content in a wide variety of processed foods for nutritional labeling. The method has been adopted official first action.
mesh_terms: D002725:Chloroform; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000032:analysis*; D005504:Food Analysis / Q000379:methods*; D000432:Methanol; D013223:Statistics as Topic
chemical_list: D004041:Dietary Fats; D002725:Chloroform; D000432:Methanol