Comparison of HPLC-DAD and GC-FID Methods for Determination of 6-Methyl Coumarin in Cosmetics

摘要

The methods of determination of 6-methyl coumarin in cosmetics by HPLC-DAD and GC-FID were compared. The positive samples were confirmed by GC-MS. Methanol was used to extract 6-methyl coumarin from cosmetics. The chromatographic conditions of the two methods were optimized and the samples were determined. The recovery, precision, correlation coefficient, detection limit and quantitative limit of the two methods were compared. The results showed that the linear relationship between the two methods was good. The percentage recovery of standard addition by HPLC-DAD was 92.20%~102.80%, by RSD was 0.77%~2.00%;the detection limit was 0.05 mg/kg, the quantitative limit was 0.17 mg/kg. The percentage recovery of standard addition by GC-FID was 97.30%~103.28%, by RSD was 0.47%~4.87%;the detection limit was 1.3 mg/kg, the quantitative limit was 5.0 mg/kg. The detection limit by HPLC-DAD was lower and more sensitive than that by GC-FID , which also shows that HPLC-DAD has more advantages for the detection of low content samples.