Issue 6, 2017

Selenium enriched dietary supplement rapid screening method using XRF and DART-HRAM-MS for label verification

Abstract

Selenium is a biologically relevant trace element that is a common ingredient of commercially available dietary supplements. Label verification of dietary supplements enriched with selenium has been performed using liquid chromatography with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LC/ICP-MS) in research applications. While this method represents the gold standard, performing LC/ICP-MS analysis on dietary supplements can be cumbersome and comes with the cost of time, ultimately limiting the throughput of this technique. A rapid screening method would improve throughput and reduce the number of samples requiring the complete LC/ICP-MS characterization of selenium for dietary supplement label verification. A rapid screening method for the determination of total selenium using energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence (XRF) (limit of detection 4 μg g−1, limit of quantitation 30 μg g−1) and unbound “selenoamino acids” using direct analysis in real time high resolution accurate mass–mass spectrometry (DART-HRAM-MS) was successfully applied to 13 dietary supplements previously characterized by LC/ICP-MS. Overall, determining total and speciated selenium in enriched dietary supplements using the combined XRF/DART-HRAM-MS approach reduces the analysis time from several hours to less than 40 minutes per sample.

Graphical abstract: Selenium enriched dietary supplement rapid screening method using XRF and DART-HRAM-MS for label verification

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Technical Note
Submitted
04 feb 2017
Accepted
28 mar 2017
First published
28 mar 2017

J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2017,32, 1196-1202

Selenium enriched dietary supplement rapid screening method using XRF and DART-HRAM-MS for label verification

T. A. Hanley, K. Kubachka, A. M. Taylor and S. E. Kern, J. Anal. At. Spectrom., 2017, 32, 1196 DOI: 10.1039/C7JA00050B

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