This is a laboratory-based investigation of preservative chemicals commonly found in household products - parabens. Students carry out extractions of parabens froma product of choice and analyse the extracts using either GC or HPLC. Suggested methods are given for each analytical method. Composition data are compared against EU legislation for the use of parabens.

最新修改

• 10/19/2024

Creator

• Belt, Simon
• Masse, Guillaume

贡献者

• Masse, Guillaume
• Belt, Simon

Contributor type

• Author

Subject

• Gas chromatography
• High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
• UKOER
• European Union (EU)
• Chemistry, Analytic
• Parabens

Publisher

• The University of Hull

Identifier

• hull:2259

Related item publisher

• The University of Hull

Resource type general

• Learning materials