Analysis of Food-Packaging Filmby Headspace-GC/MS

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Gerhard Schubert GmbH - Verpackungsmaschinen

Elementar Analysensysteme GmbH

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The significant response of the volatile solvent material by this heated headspace technique would allow for a flame ionization detector (FID) to be used as a substitute for the MS detector. While the MS gives a positive identification as well as selectivity, the FID can be used in a majority of standard QA/QC environments.

Conclusions

The PerkinElmer TurboMatrix Headspace Trap with the Clarus 500 GC/MS meets all the requirements for foodpackaging analysis. The main requirement for this application is fast, easy and quantitative solvent determination. Using the setup demonstrated here, the sample is placed into a vial and placed in the autosampler tray of the headspace. Then the automated analysis is completed without operator attention. In addition, the headspace’s overlapping thermostatting allows up to 12 samples to be processed simultaneously, thus allowing 50-75 analyses per day.

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