1 resultado para High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)

em Universidad Politécnica de Madrid


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Twelve commercially available edible marine algae from France, Japan and Spain and the certified reference material (CRM) NIES No. 9 Sargassum fulvellum were analyzed for total arsenic and arsenic species. Total arsenic concentrations were determined by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometry (ICP-AES) after microwave digestion and ranged from 23 to 126 μg gâˆ1. Arsenic species in alga samples were extracted with deionized water by microwave-assisted extraction and showed extraction efficiencies from 49 to 98%, in terms of total arsenic. The presence of eleven arsenic species was studied by high performance liquid chromatographyâultraviolet photo-oxidationâhydride generation atomicâfluorescence spectrometry (HPLCâ(UV)âHGâAFS) developed methods, using both anion and cation exchange chromatography. Glycerol and phosphate sugars were found in all alga samples analyzed, at concentrations between 0.11 and 22 μg gâˆ1, whereas sulfonate and sulfate sugars were only detected in three of them (0.6-7.2 μg gâˆ1). Regarding arsenic toxic species, low concentration levels of dimethylarsinic acid (DMA) (<0.9 μg gâˆ1) and generally high arsenate (As(V)) concentrations (up to 77 μg gâˆ1) were found in most of the algae studied. The results obtained are of interest to highlight the need to perform speciation analysis and to introduce appropriate legislation to limit toxic arsenic species content in these food products.