Artificial sweeteners in beverages by ultra performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array and liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

Food Control

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 43-52

  Lorenzo, R A ^a   Pena, M T ^a   Fernandez P ^b   Gonzalez P ^a   Carro, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Artificial sweeteners; LC MS MS; Sugar free beverages; UPLC PDA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904015669     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2014.06.035     Document Type: Article

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