NL2020667B1 - Method for improved detection of dioxins - Google Patents
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Abstract
De onderhavige uitvinding heeft betrekking op een werkwijze voor het vaststellen van de aanwezigheid van dioxine in een voedselproduct. De werkwijze van de onderhavige uitvinding is in het bijzonder geschikt voor detectie van dioxinen in producten die doorgaans moeilijk te analyseren zijn, onder andere producten met een hoog eiwitgehalte zoals vlees en zuivelproducten en vis- en schaaldieren.
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The present invention relates to a method for establishing the presence of dioxin in a food product. The method of present invention is especially suitable for detection of dioxins in product having a high protein content.
Dioxins £ire a group of chemically-related compounds ( 200+ compounds) that are persistent environmental pollutants. Dioxin is a colorless, odorless organic compound containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and chlorine and include polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs), derivatives of dibenzo-p-dioxin, the most toxic being 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD), Polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), or furans and polychlorinated/polybrominated biphenyls (PCBs/PBBs). Under certain conditions PCBs may form dibenzofurans/dioxins through partial oxidation.
Dioxins are unwanted side products of a wide range of manufacturing processes including the manufacturing of some herbicides and pesticides. In the environment, dioxins lend to accumulate in the food chain. The contamination can vary widely depending on the origin of the foodstuff. Meat, eggs, milk, seafood and other food products may be contaminated above background levels by dioxins. The majority of human exposure to dioxins is through food, mainly meal and dairy products, fish and shellfish.
Once dioxins enter the body (e.g. via food), they can last for a long time because of their chemical stability and their ability to be absorbed by fat tissue and then stored in the body. Dioxins are highly toxic and can cause reproductive and developmental problems, damage the immune system, interfere with hormones and also cause cancer. Dioxin have been found at toxic at levels in the part per trillion (ppt) range. Therefore it is essential that dioxins are monitored the food supply, to ensure food safety. Food and feed contamination monitoring systems must be in place to ensure that tolerance levels are not exceeded. The level of detection needed for dioxins make the current methods for the analysis of these compounds difficult to perform and expensive.
Most methods for the detection of dioxins make use of isotopic dilution technique where a known amount of the carbon-13 form (internal standard) of a compound is spiked into the sample, providing a solution with chemically identical forms of the compound that can be separately quantified. The method consist of the extraction (separation/isolalion of the dioxin compounds) of the sample, and the instrumental analysis, being gas chromatograpy (GC) and mass spectrometry (MS).
The major challenges with regard to the analysis of food products lie in the extraction and separation of the dioxins and PCBs from the other compounds found in the matrix. During the process of preparing the samples for GC and MS measurement, proteins, sugars, and fat residues interfere with the detection of dioxins, therefore the sample needs extensive and time consuming clean up. Furthermore, there are significant differences in the approach to extraction and clean-up needed for fruits, hard vegetables, soft vegetables, grains, dairy products, fish and meats. However, the more complex the extraction and clean-up becomes, the greater the potential for loss of materials of interest. For instance, food product that are high in protein content remain a difficult group of food product to be analysed for their dioxin content due to the high eontamination/pollution of the matrix, resulting in a reduced sensitivity and reliability of the measurement at levels as low as at the ppt level. An alternative to the exclusion of dioxins and PCBs from protein rich products is the traditional soxhlet extraction, but this uses a lot of solvent (> 250 ml dichloromethane / n-Hexane) and is very time-consuming (~ 10 hours extration time). Furthermore, foods that combine ingredients into a final product can further complicate the matrix with the chemical additives. Finally, determination of false-negative samples are also a problem, because this includes an increased potential for contaminated products to reach the consumer. This may for instance occur when a sample matrix results in analyte loss during extraction and cleanup, the contaminant will not be detected.
Present techniques and methods for the quantitative analysis of dioxins require expensive, elaborate and complex methods. The analysis costs are high and may also vary according to the type of sample or dioxin. Considering the above, there is a need in the art for a simple level, less expensive but more reliable dioxin screening method for food and feed samples.
It is an object of the present invention, amongst other objects, to address the above need in the art. The object of present invention, amongst other objects, is met by the present invention as outlined in the appended claims.
Specifically, the above object, amongst other objects, is met, according to a first aspect, by the present invention by a method for establishing the presence of dioxin in a food product, comprising the steps of
a) contacting of a sample of the food product having a protein content of at least 15 wt% , based on the total weight of the sample, with a solution comprising sulphuric acid (H2SO4),
b) heating of the sample contacted with the sulphuric acid solution of step a to at least 100 °C for at least 30 min, preferably 1 hour, to obtain an emulsion,
c) allowing the emulsion to cool to a temperature between 15 and 25 °C,
d) contacting the emulsion of step c with an extraction liquid comprised of at least 15 wt% hexane and at least 75 wt% isopropanol, based on the total weight of the extraction liquid,
e) homogenizing of the emulsion of step d to form a suspension.
f) allowing separation of the suspension in at least two phases and subsequently isolating the non-polar phase after extraction,
g) contacting the isolated non-polar phase with hexane,
h) repeating step f) and step g) for at least one more time, to obtain a sample A,
j) subjecting sample A to a purification column comprised of AgNO3 silica gel for purification of the sample A to obtain a sample B,
k) subjecting the sample B to gas chromatography and/or mass spectrometry for establishing the presence of dioxin.
After separation in step f is allowed, two phases are formed, resulting in one layer on top of the other. The upper or top layer is a non-polar layer is comprised of hexane including the non-polar components such as dioxins and PCBs. The lower layer is the polar layer comprising all polar component in a aqueous fraction. The upper layer is continued to step g for further extraction of the dioxins and PCBs.
The method of present invention improves the extraction of dioxins, for example, by means of the speed extractor. Solid products are normally run with the speed extractor to extract the dioxins from the product before it goes to the clean-up system, but for some samples having a high protein content this does not w'ork. Samples with a protein content higher than 1520% (feather meal, fish meal, blood meal etc.) Cannot be processed with the aid of the speed extractor because the extract ensures that the tubing become clogged when they go from the extraction tube to the collection reservoir.
The method of present invention is especially suitable for food products that are high in protein content. Due to the matrix effects of the protein on the detection of dioxins, these type of product is difficult to achieve a robust and accurate detection. The method of present invention solve this problem by a specific pre-treatment of the samples. The sample contacted with the sulphuric acid solution is heated up to at least 100 0 C. The increased temperature results in an improved and accelerated break dowm of protein content present in the food samples. Especially food samples having a high protein content, i.e. a protein content of at least 15 wt% have proven to benefit from the heating step w'ith sulphuric acid. Preferably, in addition to the heating during the extraction, the product and solvent can be under high pressure, at least 100 bar. The proteins will dissolve under this temperature and pressure. However, if the solution is cooled back to room temperature, the proteins will come out of the solution again and will result in clogging of the tubing of the GC/MS. This results in low' recoveries (<50%), or no extract at all. Experiments resulted in that for products with high protein concentrations (feather meal, fishmeal, blood meal, etc.), it is preferred to perform a protein hydrolysis with a sulfuric acid solution. As a result, the proteins are broken down into amino acids and polypeptides. After this step, a liquid / liquid extraction can be performed to extract the dioxins and PCBs from the amino acid / peptide emulsion. The recoveries found by using this method are significantly higher than the first method, namely at least 70% or higher. Furthermore, besides the fact that high recovery percentages are obtained, chlorinated solvents are not used and less organic solvent is used (maximum 100ml nhexane).
According to a preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to the method wherein after step f), in addition to the non-polar phase, a polar phase is obtained and wherein said polar phase is subjected to a purification column comprised of H2SO4 silica gel and eluted with hexane to obtain a sample C. In the event that in the top phase (non-polar phase) no dioxins could have been established, the dioxins may have been ended up in the “waste fraction” i.e. the polar phase after extraction. Therefore the polar phase is to be analysed for dioxins. But before this analysis can be performed, this phase needs to be purified.
According to another preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to the method wherein the polar phase is subjected to a purification column comprised of a glass fibre membrane to obtain sample C, followed by subjecting the sample C to gas chromatography and/or mass spectrometry for establishing the presence of dioxin.
According to yet another preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to the method wherein in step a), the weight ratio between sample and sulphuric acid solution is at least 1:12, preferably at least 1:16, more preferably at least 1: 20, most preferably 1:24.
According to a preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to the method wherein the sulphuric acid solution is at least a 5M solution, more preferably at least a 6M solution.
According to another preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to the method wherein in step d the volume ratio of said extraction liquid in relation to said emulsion is at least 1:1, more preferably at least 5:1.
According to yet another preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to the method wherein in step g the volume ratio of hexane in relation to said non-polar phase is at least 1:1, more preferably at least 5:1.
According to a preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to the method wherein said dioxin is one or more selected from the group consisting of polychlorinated dibenzop-dioxins (PCDDs), derivatives of dibenzo-p-dioxin, 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzodioxin (TCDD), polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs), furans and polychlorinated/polybrominated biphenyls (PCBs/PBBs).
According to another preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to the method wherein said food product is one or more selected from the group consisting of meat and dairy products, fish, shellfish, fruit, vegetables, seeds, grain, herbs, spices, eggs and milk, preferably meat and dairy products, fish and shellfish.
According to yet another preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to the method wherein said detection of dioxin in a food product comprises a maximum residue limits (MRL) of at most 10 pg/kg, preferably of at most 5 pg/kg, most preferably of at most 1 pg/kg.
The present invention will be further detailed in the following examples:
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Weigh 1.5 to 2.5 g of product into a 50 ml shaker tube, add 20 pi of 13-C labelled internal standard solution, 20 ml of 6M H2SO4 and shake vigorously. Leave the measuring cylinder in a water bath at 100 ° C for 1 hour (shaking occasionally). Allow to cool to room temperature and extract the resulting emulsion with 25 ml of hexane / iso-propanol mixture. Transfer the top layer (non-polar) quantitatively to a 25 ml graduated cylinder. Repeat the extraction with 25 ml hexane two more times, each time transferring the top layer to a round bottom flask. Evaporate the obtained extract to 1 -2 ml.
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