Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, Volume. 34, Issue 3, 685(2014)

Study of Fast Pretreatment Method in Detection of Melamine in Liquid Milk Using Liquid Chromatography and Raman Spectroscopy

LIU Feng1、*, ZOU Ming-qiang1, ZHANG Meng1,2, ZHANG Xiao-fang1, and LI Meng1
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    The present paper proposed for the first time the flocculation-filtration method for separation of interfering substances in milk, such as fat. In this method only two steps were carried out. Firstly, aluminum chloride (PAC, Al2(OH)nCl6-n) is used to flocculate the milk; Secondly, water filter was used to filter the mixture. Then the clear filtrate could be used for the detection of melamine. The whole preprocessing would not take more than one minute. The pretreatment process was optimized. Experiments show that the adding proportion of PAC should be about 2%~3% for best filtration efficiency, and that it would have the best flocculation effect when the mixture was mildly alkaline. High performance liquid chromatography experiments show that the melamine recovery of this method is more than 90%. Samples pretreated by the flocculation-filtration method were clearer and the baselines of spectral curve obtained by sensitizing Raman method were more smooth which means better purification compared to those samples pretreated by centrifugal pretreatment method. The pretreatment method proposed can be used in HPLC and Raman spectroscopy methods for rapid detecting melamine in liquid milk. This method shows better separation effect, simpler operation, and lower time and money cost than those pretreatment processes in the existing standard melamine detection method for milk. By use of this pretreatment method, the melamine rapid detection efficiency would be greatly improved.

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    LIU Feng, ZOU Ming-qiang, ZHANG Meng, ZHANG Xiao-fang, LI Meng. Study of Fast Pretreatment Method in Detection of Melamine in Liquid Milk Using Liquid Chromatography and Raman Spectroscopy[J]. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2014, 34(3): 685

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    Paper Information

    Received: May. 14, 2013

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Mar. 14, 2014

    The Author Email: Feng LIU (liufeng@caiq.gov.cn)

    DOI:10.3964/j.issn.1000-0593(2014)03-0685-04

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