Simultaneous Determination of Fungicides in Wood and Bamboo Food-Contact Materials by High-Performance Liquid Chromatography–Tandem Mass Spectrometry (HPLC–MS/MS)

Abstract

Bamboo and wood are widely used as food contact materials (FCMs). Fungicides are often applied during the manufacture of these products to prevent mildew; thus, monitoring for fungicide residues is essential because of the possible risks to food safety. However, it is not clear whether residual fungicides in treated bamboo and wood products migrate into food to cause harm to humans, and there is an absence of procedures for these analyses. In this study, the simultaneous determination of fungicides was validated in bamboo and wood FCMs by high-performance liquid chromatography–triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC–MS/MS). The analytes were extracted with methanol or 1:1 methanol/acetonitrile and purified using 25 mg primary secondary amine adsorbent with 2.5 mg graphitized carbon black or 25 mg PSA with 25 mg octadecylsilane (C18). The recoveries for wood and bamboo FCMs were from 60.0% to 100.7% and 70.0% to 97.5%, respectively. The intra-day precision of wood and bamboo FCMs were from 0.1% to 5.3% and 0.1 to 3.0%, and the inter-day precision from 0.3% to 8.5% and 1.2% to 7.8%, respectively. The limits of detection ranged from 0.11 to 15.38 for wood and 0.25–6.19 μg kg⁻¹ for bamboo. This method provides a reference for the determination of fungicides in bamboo and wood FCMs.

Keywords:

• Bamboo and wood food-contact materials
• fungicides
• high-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC–MS/MS)

Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank the Center for Food Evaluation, State Administration for Market Regulation, China for support.

Author contributions

Xiaoqing Yue: Validation, Methodology, Formal analysis, Investigation, Date Curation, Writing-Original draft preparation, Visualization. Xiaoshuang Zou: Project administration. Ruiqi Sun: Resources. Jun Wang: Conceptualization, Writing-Reviewing & Editing, Supervision.

Disclosure statement

No conflicts of interest are reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Center for Food Evaluation, State Administration for Market Regulation, China [grant 20184831].