Mass spectrometry
Determination of the carbon-13 content of sugars and pulp from fruit juices by isotope-ratio mass spectrometry (internal reference method). A European interlaboratory comparison

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Abstract

An interlaboratory comparison by 13C-isotope ratio mass spectrometry was organised by working group No. 1 of the European Commission of Standardisation (CEN/TC 174) in order to define the repeatability (r) and the reproducibility (R) of the 13C determination in sugars and pulp, isolated from the same fruit juice. Six unlabelled juices were analysed in 19 laboratories in the European Union, Australia and the USA. Three samples were authentic juices (orange, grapefruit, pineapple) and the remaining samples were the same juices with an addition of sugar at 15 g l−1 (orange, pineapple) or 11.8 g l−1 (grapefruit). The sugar was prepared by mixing equal amounts of beet and cane sucroses. The different laboratories used the same experimental protocol under different conditions (operator, conversion system for CO2 preparation, mass spectrometer). The results for the sugars (r = 0.27%., R = 0.82%.) were comparable to those from an earlier ring test (r = 0.30%., R = 0.70%.), while the results for the pulp presented higher interlaboratory variability (r = 0.38%., R = 1.89%.) possibly due to experimental difficulties. Nevertheless, the RSDR for free sugars ranged 0.9–3.2% and for pulp, 0.9–9.3%. On the basis of the Horwitz equation and taking account of the concentration of the isotopes measured, an RSDR of 7–8% might have been expected. The experimentally determined RSDR values were less than twice the theoretically expected values, which is a criterion of an acceptable method. The results were therefore considered to be acceptable by specialists in the field of isotopic analysis, and the method applied was found to improve the sensitivity of the 13C determination for the detection of sugar addition in fruit juices.

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