Parts‐per‐trillion determination of styrene in yoghurt by purge‐and‐trap gas chromatography with mass spectrometry detection

Food Additives and Contaminants

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 346-354

  Nerín, Cristina ^a   Rubio, Carlos ^a   Cacho, Juan ^a   Salafranca, Jesús ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Fatty food; GC MS Scan; GC MS SIM; Headspace; Isotopic dilution; Purge and trap; Styrene; Volatile organic compounds; Yoghurt

Indexed keywords

POLYSTYRENE; STYRENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; YOGHURT;

ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; CAPILLARY GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD PACKAGING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPAIN;

EID: 0031894445     PISSN: 0265203X     EISSN: 14645122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652039809374650     Document Type: Article

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