Determination of Carrageenan in Livestock and Poultry Meat by Ultrahigh-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry

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The UHPLC-MS/MS method was developed using the standard chromatograms of carrageenan in five types of livestock and poultry meat samples. The x-axis is the detection time (the value marked on the chromatographic peak represents the retention time of carrageenan); the y-axis is the peak area. Chromatogram of the carrageenan standard at 0.40 g/kg in (a) pork (retention time 1.34 min), (b) beef (retention time 1.33 min), (c) lamb (retention time 1.33 min), (d) chicken (retention time 1.38 min), and (e) duck (retention time 1.36 min). UHPLC-MS/MS, ultrahigh-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

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