抄録
Microdetermination of artificial sweetening agents in drinks and foods by means of mass spectrometry has been studied; some typical sweetening agents could be detected and characterized easily without such complicated separations as described in Standard Methods of Analysis for Hygienic Chemists……with Commentary(authorized by the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan, 1965.). Even when a few sweetening agents were contained in a drink or food, all of them could be characterized by measuring a mass spectrum of the mixture which was obtained simply by extraction of the acidified, and/or the alkalified drink or food with ether; saccharin in the former case and dulcin and p-nitro-o-toluidine in the latter. Sodium cyclaminate is detected as cyclohexanol after diazotization treatment.
