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Flour acidity (ml of O.lmol/1 NaOH/lOg, titrated in the presence of phenolphthalein) depends upon the extraction rate of the flour and ranges between 2.0ml/g (flour type 450) and 5.5 ml/g (flour t)fpe 1800). Too low acidity often reflects poorly aged flour. Acidity above 7.0 suggests microbial spoilage. 

For a given wheat cultivar, grown under similar climatic and soil conditions, the baking volume correlates with the protein content of the flour (Fig. 15.24). A similar linear relationship is not readily attainahle for flours from different cultivars, as evidenced hy the very different slopes of the regression hnes. 

The parameters involved here are those descrihed in Section 15.2.1.4 as responsible for the properties of gluten. These include type, amount, and degree of polymerization of the HMW and LMW subunits of glutenin as well as the ratio ghadin/glutenin. 

On the whole, the structure of wheat gluten has been so far evaluated to be able to describe variety-specific differences in the technological properties. 

Wheat cultivars differ in the content of their thiol and disulfide groups (Table 15.40). This implies that the stabUity of a dough may be strongly influenced by a SH/SS exchange between a low molecular weight SH-peptide and gluten proteins. This also implies that a positive correlation 

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Chemical assay is preferably performed by gas—hquid chromatography (glc) or by the conventional methods for determination of unsaturation such as bromination or addition of mercaptan, sodium bisulfite, or mercuric acetate. 

Chemical Assay. In view of the similarity of their chemical and physical properties (see Table 1) (29), the main problem in the chemical analysis of the thyroid hormones is their separation. A USP procedure gives the details of a paper chromatographic separation in which T is examined for contamination by T and 3,5-diiodothyroiiine (30). Other systems are also employed (29). 

Bioassay. Although the chemical assays described above have replaced bioassays for the determination of T and T, several m vivo and in vitro bioassays are used to determine the potency of thyroglobulin preparations and to estabUsh the thyromimetic or antithyroid potency of new compounds. 

The common indices of the physical environment are temperature, pressure, shaft power input, impeller speed, foam level, gas flow rate, liquid feed rates, broth viscosity, turbidity, pH, oxidation-reduction potential, dissolved oxygen, and exit gas concentrations. A wide variety of chemical assays can be performed product concentration, nutrient concentration, and product precursor concentration are important. Indices of respiration were mentioned with regard to oxygen transfer and are particularly useful in tracking fermentation behavior. Computer control schemes for fermentation can focus on high productiv-... 

More recently, the reaction advancement of resole syntheses (pH = 8 and 60°C) was monitored using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), 13C NMR, and chemical assays.55,56 The disappearance of phenol and the appearances of various hydroxymethyl-substituted phenolic monomers and dimers have been measured. By assessing the residual monomer as a function of reaction time, this work also demonstrated the unusually high reactivity of 2,6-dihydroxymethyl-phenol. The rate constants for phenolic monomers toward formaldehyde substitution have been measured (Table 7.6). 

The FDA did not include outlier tests in the USP for chemical assays, but allowed the practice for biological tests. The reason for this could be that because of the high precision, n is usually small in chemical testing with n < 3, outlier tests cannot be conducted. It appears that Judge Wolin followed this recommendation when deliberating his decision. 

Cardone, M. J., New Technique in Chemical Assay Calculations 1. A Survey of Calculational Practices on a Model Problem, Anal. Chem. 58, 1986, 433-438. 

Bolton, S., Outlier Tests and Chemical Assays, Appendix V in Pharmaceutical Statistics, Practical and Clinical Applications, Bolton, Sanford, 3rd ed., Marcel Dekker, New York, 1997. 

Of the various chemical assays that have been developed for the saxitoxins (75,76), that described by Bates and Rapoport, based on the oxidation of saxitoxin to a fluorescent derivative, has proved to be the most useful. Other assay methods have been developed from it (77-79). The Bates and Rapoport method is virtually insensitive to the N-l-hydroxyl saxitoxins as originally described and so, like the presently available immunoassays, fails as a general assay for either concentration or toxicity. However, it is quite sensitive for those toxins it does detect and has been the basis for other useful methods. 

Assays of ciguatoxin. Determination of ciguatoxin levels in fish was carried out in many laboratories by mouse assays. Enzyme immunoassay to screen inedible fish has been proposed by Hokama (9). No specific chemical assay has been developed, as information on functional groups suitable for fluorescence labeling is not available. Analyses conducted in the authors laboratory on remnant fish retrieved from patients meals indicated that ciguatoxin content as low level as 1 ppb could cause intoxication in adults. An extremely high sensitivity and a sophisticated pretreatment method will be required for designing a fluorometric determination method for the toxin. 

Drugs can also Interfere with laboratory results by negating certain nonspecific oxidation and reduction reactions essential for the chemical assay. Penicillin, streptomycin and ascorbic acid are known to react with cupric Ion thus, false positive results for glucose may occur If a copper reduction method Is used. If the specific enzymatic glucose-oxidase method Is employed, ascorbic acid can cause a false negative result by preventing the oxidation of a specific chromogen In the reaction. 

Reference Substances Used for Assay Physico-Chemical Assay Standards... 

Standardized procedures were adopted with regard to sample preparation, recovery of toxicant, and chemical assay. In order to determine the nature and magnitude of penetrated residues, it was necessary to disassociate all extra-surface residues. The techniques originally developed to effect this separation and which were used in most of the DDT penetration studies have been described by Gunther 11). Certain modifications which have been developed subsequently in connection with the parathion studies are described in detail below since this phase of penetration studies assumes singular importance (see also 14). 

Several chemical-assay methods (15,23,50) for tetraethyl pyrophosphate were recently developed and applied by seven collaborating laboratories to samples of representative commercial products and to a sample of purified tetraethyl pyrophosphate which served as a common standard. Concordant results, which correlated well with bioassay results,... 

Chemical Testing. Adequate instrumentation for a variety of different test methods should be available. Most stability-indicating chemical assays are performed by high-performance liquid chromatography. Occasionally, gas chromatography, infrared spectrophotometry, or spectrofluorimetry are used. Test... 

The application should state the rationale for the design of the in-use stability tests performed. The procedures used should be fully validated. One key factor is that the test should simulate the use of the product as far as practicable. This should include any reconstitution or dilution prior to use. Aliquots should be removed in an appropriate manner following, as far as possible, the usage pattern that will be encountered in practice. Physical (color, clarity, closure integrity, particulate matter, and particulates/particle size), chemical (assays for active ingredient, antioxidants and... 

In extreme cases where all electron transfer steps are reversible and the water trapping reactions are very slow, the charge is distributed over the guanines according to the thermodynamic stabilization. From these experiments one cannot deduce the influence of the sequence on the hole transfer rate. Therefore, using a chemical assay of this type leads to results that have to be discussed with great care. 

Rhodes A, Jasani B, Anderson E, et al. Evaluation of HER-2/neu immunohisto-chemical assay sensitivity and scoring on formalin-fixed and paraffin-processed cell lines and breast tumors a comparative study involving results from laboratories in 21 countries. Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 2002 118 408-417. 

The ultraviolet chemical assay for erythromycin remains largely unchanged from that described by Kuzel et al.9 in 1954. This procedure is essentially as follows. The reference standard, alkali reagent, and buffer solutions are prepared prior to the assay. 

Seaman and Stewart have described a radio-chemical assay for determining neomycin on cotton-fabric. Neomycin is reacted with carbon disulphide forming a dithiocarbonate which is then decomposed with [H°Ag] silver nitrate. The precipitated [H Ag] silver sulphide, which is directly related to the amount of neomycin present, is estimated by counting. 

Chemical assays such as total protein assays and analytical chemistry including spectroscopy and chromatography. 

In brown algae, phlorotannins are localized in specialized bodies called physodes (Ragan 1976). Shifting the experimental approach, from chemical assays of total phlorotannin concentration to microscopic methods that describe physode transport and establish the timeframes at which phlorotannins accumulate in response to abiotic or biotic stimuli, has provided new insight into the understanding of phlorotannin production and function. It is known that physodes are derived from the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and Golgi of the cell (Schoenwaelder and Clayton 2000). It appears that physodes are transferred across the cytosol and incorporated into the cell wall, where the phlorotannins are assumed to have a structural role and thus be involved in primary metabolism (Schoenwaelder and Clayton 2000 Arnold and Targett 2003). 

The complexity of the mixtures made it impossible to define the chemical composition so the commercial preparations were divided into four groups (Table 8.2) on the basis of a series of sophisticated chemical assay procedures. Caramel colorants must be compatible with the food products in which they are used, which usually means the absence of flocculation and precipitation in the food. These undesirable effects result from charged macromolecular components of caramel which react with the food. Hence the net ionic charge of the caramel macromolecules at the pH of the intended food product is the prime determinant of compatibility. Caramel colorants are used in a variety of foods (Table 8.2) but over 80% of the caramel produced in the US is used to color soft drinks particularly colas and root beers. 

Comparison of bioassays and chemical assays for detection of pbycotoxins. 

Now, finally, the significance of all this. Because, as a practical matter, it is difficult to conduct bioassays with more than 100-150 animals per dose level (usually split evenly between males and females), it can be seen from the above table that in the best of circumstances, with a zero or very low incidence outcome in control animals, it would be necessary for a tested compound to induce something like an 8-15% tumor incidence before we could fairly label it a carcinogen. This is a fairly large risk, yet our typical cancer bioassay has what might be called a limit of detection at about this level. Like chemical assays, bioassays are limited in their ability to detect effects - in this case, the carcinogenicity of a chemical substance. 

With subsequent batches, chemical assays would be only used to confirm the preservative level, since the effectiveness during shelf life is being demonstrated. If the formulation is changed, the preservative effectiveness must be verified with at least one batch throughout the shelf life. 

In reviews on the use of in situ sensors" or optical sensor systems" for bioprocesses, UV-vis does not play a major role. An example for the application of at-line UV-vis spectroscopy was presented by Noui et al. The selective flocculation processes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae homogenates were followed with a newly developed direct UV spectrophotometer. The results from a PLS regression model were in good agreement with those from off-line chemical assays. 

Preference is obviously for a simple chemical assay for PSP. Unfortunately the more specific the chemical test, the narrower is the window of compounds it can assay. The Paralytic Shellfish Poison is not just Saxitoxin (STX) as originally believed, but is a mixture of compounds closely related to STX Q) and the mix varies widely with location and with time ( ). It would seem, therefore that a chemical assay should determine at least the ratios of the several compounds, and that the relative toxicity of each of the compounds must be known. An effective assay must evaluate the actual biological toxicity of the shellfish being tested. For the chemical assay this requires the summated toxicity of all the... 

Since the PSP toxins lack native fluorescence, useful UV absorption or adequate volatility, more traditional analytical procedures such as gas chromatography or spectrometry have proven ineffective in assaying for the toxins. A number of chemical assays for the toxins have been developed though with the fluorometric method of Bates and Rapoport (3 ) proving to be the most useful to date. This assay is based on oxidation of the PSP toxins under alkaline conditions to fluorescent derivatives. The assay is highly sensitive, fairly specific for the PSP toxins and was incorporated into a detection method in the column chromatographic separation of the toxins described by Buckley et al (4 ). 

Under these circumstances, attempts have been made to develop chemical assay methods of TTX. In the near future, the mouse assay method may be replaced by chemical methods. 

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