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Strategies for solving matrix effects in the analysis of sulfathiazole in honey samples using three-way
M C Mahedero1, N Mora Díaz, A Muñoz de la Peña
1Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Extremadura, 06071 Badajoz, Spain.
Abstract:
A widely employed compound for honey treatment, sulfathiazole (ST), was determined in commercial honey samples, employing a combination of photochemically induced fluorescence excitation-emission matrices (EEMs) and chemometric processing of the recorded second-order data. Parallel Factor Analysis (PARAFAC) and Self-Weighted Alternating Trilinear Decomposition (SWATLD) methods were used for calibration. An appropriately designed calibration with a set of standards composed of 18 samples, coupled to the use of the second-order advantage offered by the applied chemometric techniques, allowed quantitation of sulfathiazole in spiked commercial honey samples. No previous separation or sample pretreatment steps were required. The results were compared with other calibration methods such as N-PLS and PLS-1 that produced good results on synthetic samples but not on the investigated commercial honey samples.
