Survey of organotin compounds in blended wines
D S Forsyth1, W F Sun, K Dalglish
1Health Protection Branch, Food Research Division, Bureau of Chemical Safety, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Abstract:
An extraction method for butyltin, cyclohexyltin, octyltin and phenyltin compounds in wines was developed using 0.05% tropolone in 75% diethyl ether/pentane. Recoveries averaged 96.8% (range 78-121%). Methyl derivatives made by Grignard reaction were quantitated by gas chromatography (GC)-atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS). Twenty-nine of the 90 samples (32.2%) tested contained at least one of the analytes. Mono- and diocyltin were found in one sample only, at levels of 2.41 and 0.12 ng/ml respectively. Dibutyltin levels ranged from < 0.08 to 1.44 ng/ml. Monobutyl and tributyltin were found less frequently and at lower levels than dibutyltin. GC/mass spectrometric analysis confirmed the presence of butyl- and octyltins. No other organotin compounds were detected by either GC-AAS or GC-MS.
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