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Rndirk » Thu May 09, 2019 2:53 pm
Consumer Products Guy wrote:
I'm thinking that the premix assay is an internal test. So I don't see the need to use the expensive internal isotope standard test and LCMS on the premix, why not just keep that assay on regular HPLC using external standard quantitation?
And just use the LCMS test on the finished product.
You're right that isotope labeled internal standards are probably an overkill since (correct me if i'm wrong) premixtures are not a very complex kind of matrix + the fact that it will be diluted a lot. However there are some issues in our HPLC procedure and I need to make 1 single procedure on 1 single instrument and do a proper validation (this time).
James_Ball wrote:
Because of the expense of the internal standards I would do a study using known spikes of the target analytes into the premix matrix then process and add internal standard just before injection. The study is to determine the efficiency of the extraction by calculating %recovery, but the internal added just before analysis will still account for any matrix suppression/enhancement, which is the main reason for using a labeled internal standard.
This is not a bad idea. I'm going to do some tests like this.
Another idea a colleague gave me was, instead of making a liquid "pre-dilution", to 'dilute' the premix powder with another, inert, powder. For example, I could take 100mg premix + 100g of inert powder, mix it, and proceed to take 1g of this mixture in analysis (which gives me the 1000x dilution i'm looking for compared to taking 1g of feed in analysis).
I'm not sure if this is practical, and this would mean I take 1 milligram of premix in analysis. This sounds like a scary low amount in terms of being representative for the whole sample, or am I missing something?