Determination of 8 sweeteners and ethyl carbamate in Baijiu by ultra performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
A method was established for the determination of ethyl carbamate(EC)and 8 kinds of sweeteners(sucralose,saccharin sodium,cyclamate,acesulfame potassium,aspartame,neotame,alitame,stevioside)in Baijiu by ultra performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry(UPLC-MS/MS).The Baijiu samples were filtered by 0.22 µm organic filter film and directly injected for mass spectrometry,separated using Agilent ZORBAX RRHD Eclipse Plus C18 column(100 mm×2.1 mm,1.8 µm)with gradient elution of methanol and 0.1%acetic acid aqueous solution,column temperature 40 ℃ and flow rate 0.35 ml/min,and detected by switching between positive and negative ion modes using ULPC-MS/MS.The injection time was 9 min.The results showed that 9 tested substances had a good linear relationship in the range of 2-500 μg/L,the correlation coefficients(R2)were all greater than 0.997,the detection limits were 0.1-0.4 μg/L,and the recoveries were 92.6%-108.7%under the spiked levels of 100 μg/L,and the relative standard deviations(RSD)were lower than 2%.The detection method had the advantages of simple pretreatment,good reproducibility,high sensitivity and fast analysis,and could be used for rapid detection and daily monitoring of EC and 8 kinds of sweeteners in Baijiu.