TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rohner, Fabian
A1  - Frey, Simone K.
A1  - Mothes, Ralf
A1  - Hurtienne, Andrea
A1  - Hartong, Simone
A1  - Bosso, Patrice Emery
A1  - Bui, Mai
A1  - Schweigert, Florian J.
A1  - Northrop-Clewes, Christine
T1  - Quantification of vitamin A in palm oil using a fast and simple portable device  method validation and comparison to high-performance liquid chromatography
JF  - International journal for vitamin and nutrition research
N2  - Vitamin A deficiency continues to be a global public health problem. Fortification of oil with vitamin A is considered a cost-effective, feasible strategy to prevent this problem but quality control poses a challenge to program implementation. To overcome this, we have validated a newly developed device that quantitatively measures the content of retinyl palmitate in refined palm oil, is simple to use, and yields immediate results.
 Linearity of analysis rand from 2.5-30 mg retinol equivalents (RE)/kg of palm oil, with 2.5 mg RE/kg being the determination limit; inter- and intra-assay precision ranged from 1.4-7.1 To. Comparison with a high-performance Liquid chromatography method showed high agreement between the methods (R-2 = 0.92; Limits of Agreement: -1.24 mg to 2.53 mg RE/kg), and further comparisons illustrate that the new device is useful in low resource settings. This device offers a field- and user-friendly solution to quantifying the vitamin A content in refined palm oil.
KW  - Vitamin A
KW  - retinyl palmitate
KW  - fortification
KW  - monitoring
KW  - rapid test kit
KW  - palm oil
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1024/0300-9831/a000081
SN  - 0300-9831
VL  - 81
IS  - 5
SP  - 335
EP  - 342
PB  - Hogrefe
CY  - Bern
ER  -