TY - JOUR T1 - The use of Stationary Phase Optimized Selectivity Liquid Chromatography for the development of herbal fingerprints to detect targeted plants in plant food supplements. JF - Talanta Y1 - 2017 A1 - Eric Deconinck A1 - C A Sokeng Djiogo A1 - Angelique Kamugisha A1 - Patricia Courselle KW - ALL KW - AS KW - Belgium KW - Brussels KW - care KW - chromatography KW - Combination KW - CONSUMPTION KW - Control KW - detection KW - Development KW - electronic KW - food KW - health KW - health care KW - HEALTH-CARE KW - Institute KW - IS KW - journal KW - liquid chromatography KW - Literature KW - Medicine KW - national KW - ON KW - plant KW - Plants KW - PRODUCTS KW - public KW - public health KW - Public-health KW - Quality KW - Quality Control KW - SAFETY KW - Sample KW - Samples KW - Type KW - use AB -

The consumption of plant food supplements is increasing steadily and more and more, these products are bought through internet. Often the products sold through internet are not registered or declared with a national authority, meaning that no or minimal quality control is performed and that they could contain herbs or plants that are regulated. Stationary Phase Optimized Selectivity Liquid Chromatography (SOS-LC) was evaluated for the development of specific fingerprints, to be used for the detection of targeted plants in plant food supplements. Three commonly used plants in plant food supplements and two regulated plants were used to develop fingerprints with SOS-LC. It was shown that for all plants specific fingerprints could be obtained, allowing the detection of these targeted plants in triturations with different herbal matrices as well as in real samples of suspicious supplements seized by the authorities. For three of the five plants a more specific fingerprint was obtained, compared to the ones developed on traditional columns described in literature. It could therefore be concluded that the combination of segments of different types of stationary phases, as used in SOS-LC, has the potential of becoming a valuable tool in the quality control and the identification of crude herbal or plant material and in the detection of regulated plants in plant food supplements or other herbal preparations.

VL - 170 U1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28501194?dopt=Abstract M3 - 10.1016/j.talanta.2017.04.028 ER -