
A fast and direct method for determination
of milk adulteration by monitoring of calcium and sodium concentrations
variations was described. Milk samples were furnished by a dairy company
located at São Carlos (São Paulo State, Brazil) and and spiked with tap-water,
whey, hydrogen peroxide, synthetic urine, urea and synthetic milk in the ranged
from 5% to 50% (v/v), expect for caustic soda. Caustic soda was added in the
milk until establish the original pH. The milk samples were analyzed by using
flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS) and no acid digestion process was
required. Results showed a significant decrease in the Na and Ca concentrations
with addition of synthetic milk and tap-water, a nonlinear variation with
addition of synthetic urine, whey and hydrogen peroxide and a largest increase
in the Na concentration with addition of NaOH. Correlation between Na and Ca
concentrations in pure and adulterated milk were evaluated by paired t-test at
a 95% confidence level. Results showed that the method proposed is efficient to
identify samples adulterated with tap-water, caustic soda, synthetics milk and
urine.
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