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Original Articles

Characterisation of vitamin B12 immunoaffinity columns and method development for determination of vitamin B12 in a range of foods, juices and pharmaceutical products using immunoaffinity clean-up and high performance liquid chromatography with UV detection

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Pages 282-288 | Received 07 Jul 2008, Accepted 22 Aug 2008, Published online: 18 Mar 2009
 

Abstract

New rapid and simpler procedures, using immunoaffinity columns, have been developed for the determination of vitamin B12 in a range of samples including three different US National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST) Reference Materials, infant formula, powdered energy drinks and bars, wheat breakfast cereal, carbonated soft drinks, fruit juices and vitamin B12 tablets. The procedures involved extraction of vitamin B12 using water or sodium acetate buffer and enzyme digestion (using pepsin or α-amylase, or both) if necessary. The extract was clarified and passed through “EASI-EXTRACT® Vitamin B12”, an immunoaffinity column containing monoclonal antibody with high affinity and specificity to vitamin B12. Subsequently, the vitamin B12 immunoaffinity column was washed with 10 ml water and the vitamin B12 was released from the column with 3 ml methanol. Following evaporation, the samples were reconstituted in mobile phase and analysed by HPLC–UV at 361 nm on an ACE 3AQ analytical column using a gradient elution consisting of 0.025% trifluoroacetic acid in water and acetonitrile. Analysis of three types of NIST Standard Reference Materials in triplicate demonstrated the results of the immunoaffinity column method were comparable to microbiological assay results. Method repeatability was determined for all samples analysed and ranged between 0.8 and 10%, demonstrating the method was repeatable with complex matrices (NIST 2383) containing low levels of vitamin B12 (0.44 μg per 100 g), as well as simpler matrices, such as vitamin tablets containing high levels (2000 μg per 0.849 g) of vitamin B12.

Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Dr M. Brahmbhatt, Rexall Sundown FL US and Dr O. Heudi for their expert advice on sample preparation and HPLC-UV analysis of vitamin B12

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