Vitamin Analysis for the Health and Food Sciences

Omtale

Employing a uniform, easy-to-use format, this second edition explores methods of vitamin analysis applicable to foods, supplements, and pharmaceuticals. Highlighting the rapid advancement of vitamin assay methodology, the book emphasizes the use of improved and sophisticated instrumentation including the widely adopted LC-MS. Designed as a bench reference, this volume covers basic chemistry and biochemistry and discusses available analytical methods, emphasizing regulatory methods and advanced methods of current significance. It also supplies insight into practical problem solving involving the stability of vitamins and their extraction from different biological matrices.