Abstract
A simple and rapid gas chromatographic method for the determination of N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) in fish products is described. NDMA is extracted from a dried sample with methylene chloride, mixed with n-hexane and passed through a silica gel column. NDMA adsorbed on silica gel is eluted with methylene chloride—diethyl ether (7:3) and the eluate is passed through a Sep-Pak alumina A cartridge column, on which NDMA is adsorbed. NDMA is eluted from the cartridge with diethyl ether—methanol (2:1) and the solution is injected into a gas chromatograph with nitrogen—phosphorus detection. This method does not use solvent evaporation and concentration in the clean-up- procedure, which eliminates the loss of volatile NDMA and artifactual formation of NDMA in the analytical procedure. The detection limit is 0.5-1 υg/kg and recoveries from salted pollack roe spiked at 40 and 4 υg/kg were 96.7% [relative standard deviation( R.S.D.) 3.6%] and 85.0% (R.S.D.6.8%) respectively.
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