Occurrence of (suspected) genotoxic flavouring substances in Belgian alcohol-free beers

The regulatory landscape of flavourings is evolving, thereby putting pressure on control laboratories to develop analytical methods for a wide range of compounds in various types of food (including drinks). In order to improve the monitoring of flavouring substances, a versatile and accurate analytical method using the solvent-assisted flavour evaporation (SAFE) technique coupled to gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in selected ion monitoring mode GC-MS (SIM) was developed and validated. Focus was put on authorised flavouring substances requiring specific attention due to a genotoxic concer... Mehr ...