Química Nova (Jan 2009)

Teores de carbamato de etila em aguardentes de cana e mandioca: parte II Contents of ethyl carbamate in sugar cane and manioc spirits: part II

  • Luiz Gualberto de Andrade Sobrinho,
  • Luciana Tereza Dias Cappelini,
  • Alexandre Ataíde da Silva,
  • Carlos Alexandre Galinaro,
  • Silmara França Buchviser,
  • Daniel Rodrigues Cardoso,
  • Douglas Wagner Franco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/S0100-40422009000100022
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 32, no. 1
pp. 116 – 119

Abstract

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Herein, we report the concentration of ethyl carbamate (EC) and copper in 380 samples of sugar-cane spirit and 45 samples of manioc spirit as determined by GC-MS and FAAS respectively. The cyanide content determined spectrophotometrically is reported for the manioc spirit. Sugar cane spirit produced by alembic distillation (70,0 µg L-1) shown a lower content of EC than samples produced by column distillation (270 µg L-1). No simple correlation between the content of EC and copper for sugar cane spirit as well among the concentration of EC, copper, and cyanide for manioc spirit could be observed.

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