TY - JOUR A1 - Banach, Ulrich A1 - Tiebe, Carlo A1 - Hübert, Thomas T1 - Multigas sensors for the quality control of spice mixtures JF - Food control N2 - Spices have an important impact on daily aliment. Changes of their quality resulting in far reaching consequences in different foodstuffs and imply financial losing and even health hazard. In this study it is demonstrated that application of two different portable multi gas sensors (electronic nose and ion mobility spectrometer) supported by multivariate data analysis can contribute to ensure quality control of spice mixtures and to find out product adulteration. Headspace above spice mixtures for sausages and saveloy and product counterfeitings was investigated by a metal oxide based electronic nose (e-nose of KAMINA-type). Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) of sensor resistivity data was performed for differentiation. Simultaneously an ion mobility spectrometer (IMS) was coupled to the emission chamber for detection of gaseous components above spice mixtures. The measured spectra show differences between the two spice mixtures and were discussed using a principal component analysis (PCA). The two multigas sensors permit discrimination between the types of spice mixtures and can indicate product adulteration. Additionally, a headspace gas analysis by gas chromatography was performed to identify the main volatile components and to prove the chemical basis for the observed differences of the multi gas sensors. KW - Spice mixtures KW - Product adulteration KW - Electronic nose KW - Ion mobility spectrometer KW - Gas chromatography KW - Multivariate data analysis PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2012.01.015 SN - 0956-7135 VL - 26 IS - 1 SP - 23 EP - 27 PB - Elsevier Ltd. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-25402 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -