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A rapid gas chromatographic method for the determination of BHA and BHT in vegetable oils
Author(s) -
Hartman Kenneth T.,
Rose Lucien C.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02680157
Subject(s) - chromatography , chemistry , gas chromatography , dilution , vegetable oil , soybean oil , cottonseed , injection port , elution , cottonseed oil , cartridge , food science , materials science , physics , metallurgy , composite material , thermodynamics
A gas liquid chromatographic (GLC) technique has been developed which requires about 20 min for the determination of BHA and BHT in vegetable oils. This method involves the addition of an internal standard to a weighed portion of the oil, dilution of the mixture with carbon disulfide, and injection into the Gas Chromatograph. BHA and BHT are isolated from the nonvolatile vegetable oil by using a short precolumn located in the sample port block of the gas chromatograph. Up to 35 consecutive sample injections per day have been made on the same precolumn with no appreciable effect on the accuracy of the determination. The precolumn is cleaned at the end of each day’s operation. The clean precolumn is allowed to equilibrate to sample port block temperature overnight for the following day’s analysis. Identification of BHA and BHT can be confirmed with a second GLC column which reverses the elution order of these compounds. Soybean, cottonseed, corn and peanut oils fortified with 20, 60 and 100 ppm each of BHA and BHT showed a recovery range of 97% to 104%.