Analysis of dioxins in food and feed by using New JMS-TQ4000GC and software "TQ-DioK"
MSTips No. 339
Dioxins are considered as persistent organic pollutants (POPS) due to their presence in the environment and the health risks associated.
A World Health Organization (WHO) study has demonstrated the health risks (carcinogenic and immunotoxic) when population are exposed to them. In addition, dioxins have been regulated by the Stockholm convention on POPs in May 2001. In particular, 17 substances have to be monitored. The highest toxic compound is the 2378-TeCDD. Currently, dioxins analysis can be done not only using GC-HRMS but also with GC-MS/MS according to European commission regulation (EU589/2014). Recently, JEOL has developed a new GC-triple quadrupole MS (JMS-TQ4000GC) and a new dedicated dioxins analysis software called TQ-DioK.
In addition, we have already introduced dioxins analysis result by using standard sample (MSTips338). In this study, we evaluated JMS-TQ4000GC with TQ-DioK using food samples.