Collaborative study of a modified method for the extraction of light filth from ground white pepper, cardamon, celery...

An improved method has been developed for the extraction of light filth from 5 ground spices, ginger, white pepper, coriander, celery seed, and cardamom. The method, a modification of 44.120, utilizes a cold isopropanol defatting, followed by wet sieving and flotation of light filth from 40% isopropanol with HCl and mineral oil-heptane (85 + 15). Collaborative results show that the proposed method is more rapid to perform than the present official first action methods, 44.116 and 44.120, and yields better recoveries. The method has been adopted as official first action.