Development of clean analytical method for analysis of dye amaranth by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy

• Grant number: 13/09701-1
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Effective date (Start): July 01, 2013
• Effective date (End): December 31, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry
• Principal researcher: Helena Redigolo Pezza
• Grantee: Eduardo Luiz Rossini
• Home Institution: Instituto de Química (IQ). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The analysis of additives in foods such as dyes has great importance in food safety, ensuring products suitable for consumption by the public. The methods used for analysis of dyes in food require prior stages of sample treatment and the most are based on analysis by high performance liquid chromatography, consuming large amounts of solvents and generating waste, which is at disagreement with the principles of chemistry green. Actually, the development of a new analytical method the amounts and toxicities of the reagents used and the wastes produced are as important as any other analytical feature. Hence, there is a great need to develop methods which are rapid, simple, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly for evaluation of these food additives.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ROSSINI, EDUARDO LUIZ; MILANI, MARIA IZABEL; PEZZA, LEONARDO; PEZZA, HELENA REDIGOLO. A new eco-friendly methodology for the determination of Amaranth dye in foodstuffs using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. ANALYTICAL METHODS, v. 8, n. 20, p. 4086-4092, 2016. Web of Science Citations: 5.