S. Moret et al., DETERMINATION OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS IN WATER AND WATER-BASED ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, Zeitschrift fur Lebensmittel-Untersuchung und -Forschung, 201(4), 1995, pp. 322-326
This paper proposes a simple HPLC method for the determination of poly
cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in water, wine and beer. Samples w
ere purified by PAH collection in solid-phase extraction (SPE) and ana
lysed by reversed-phase HPLC (Supelcosil LC-PAH column from Supelco).
For the beer sample, recoveries amounted to 28% for naphthalene and va
ried from 57% to 103% for the other PAHs; results are quantitative sta
rting from fluoranthene (FI, the seventh component eluted). Almost all
the beer and wine samples showed the presence of benzo(b)fluoranthene
(BbF), benzo(k)fluoranthene (BkF), benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), benz(ghi)per
ylene (BghiP) and indeno(1,2,3-cd)pyrene (IF), and in some cases there
were traces of FI, benzo(a)anthracene (BaA) and dibenz(ah) anthracene
(DBahA). Total contents of PAHs ranged from trace amounts to 0.72 ppb
. Traces of BbF, BkF, BaP, BghiP and IP were also found in the wine sa
mples.