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New Determination Methods Of Acrylamide In Food Products, Wang Zimeng, Lu Dai, Shi Xingbo, Deng Jiehong

Food and Machinery

Acrylamide (AA) is a kind of neurotoxin and potential carcinogen, formed in heating food treatment, has been aroused extensive attention in all over the word. Accurate determination of AA in complex food system is the first importance to evaluate its harmful effects on human health. In this paper, the disadvantages of traditional determination methods of AA, including liquid chromatography, gas chromotography and their coupling technique, were reviewed. Moreover, the complex of sample pretreatment process, requirement of necessary sample derivatives and professional analyzer, and expensive analytical instruments etc. were focused on. Furthermore, several new determination methods, such as capillary electrophoresis, enzyme-linked …