A strategy for the identification of plants in illegal pharmaceutical preparations and food supplements using chromatographic fingerprints.

This article presents a feasibility study of the use of chromatographic fingerprints for the detection of plants in pharmaceutical preparations. Fingerprints were developed for three non-regulated common herbal products-Rhamnus purshiana, Passiflora incarnata L. and Crataegus monogyna-and this was done by combining three different types of detection: diode-array detection, evaporative light scattering detection and mass spectrometry. It is shown that these plants could be detected in respective triturations of the dry extracts with lactose and three different herbal matrices as well as in commercial preparations purchased on the open market. PMID: 23307125 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry - Category: Chemistry Authors: Tags: Anal Bioanal Chem Source Type: research