Essential Oils Association

An in spectmm for identification of coumatin was published by the Scientific Section of the Essential Oil Association of the United States (EOA). Manufacturers specifications for commercial coumatin are (69)... 

Quality control of fragrance and flavor substances as well as the products derived from them, comprises the comparison of sensory, analytical and if necessary, microbiological data with standards and specifications. To a large extent these have been established in official specification collections (Pharmacopoeias, ISO, AFNOR, Essential Oil Association). 

The abbreviation EOA refers to the Essential Oil Association of the United States. 

A prerequisite for any quality control is the definition of how the characteristics of a specific raw material, an intermediate product or a final product of a manufacturing process should be described. This means that all characteristics for every single product have to be defined in adequate standards and specifications so that the results obtained can be compared with these data. Numerous standards and specifications have been established in more or less official specification collections, for example pharmacopoeias, the aforementioned ISO or DIN standards, standards of the Essential Oil Association or the American Spice Trade Organization (ASTA). 

The Pharmacopea and the Essential Oil Association of the United States require the following analyses as an index of oil purity refractive index, optical rotation, refractive index and optical rotation of a 10% distillate, specific gravity, aldehyde content, evaporation residue and ultraviolet absorption spectrum (Kesterson et al. 157 and Sale 29). 

Though it is a costly oil, there is no international standard for cinnamon bark oil. The higher the cinnamaldehyde content, the higher the price. In the USA, the Essential Oil Association (EOA) standard specifies an aldehyde content of 55-78% (EOA, 1975). 

Suggested classification under CHIP regulations as per The British Essential Oil Association member recommendations. 

See terpeneless oil. Further information can be obtained from the Essential Oil Association of U.S. 

The Essential Oil Association of U. S. A., of New York, issues annually a list of trademarks and specialty names used in the industry and sponsors a compendium of standards and specifications for a number of essential oils and synthetic aromatics. Its basic trade... 

Commercial essential oils are required to comply with sets of standards and specifications published by standards organizations such as International Standards Organization (ISO), British Standards, Essential Oil Association of USA, American Society for Testing and Materials, German DIS Standards, French AFNOR Standards, and so on, or pharmacopoeias or codices such as European Pharmacopoeia (Pharm. Eur.) (see Table 9.2 (29)), British Pharmacopoeia (BP), Deutsche Arzneibuch, Pharmacopoeia of the United States (USP), Food Chemicals Codex, Codex Alimentarius, and so on (1, 4, 6, 10). A full list of essential oil standards can be obtained from ISO (30). 

Linalol and terpineol cannot be determined accurately by acetylation, owing to partial decomposition. Other methods have been devised, such as by estimation of the alcohols with cold acetoformic anhydride (Glichitch ) this method gave good results in collaborative trials (Analytical Methods Committee of the S.A.C, report ) but the work of Holness using gas-liquid chromatography has shown them to be a fortuitous balancing of errors and the method less reliable than that of Fiore published by the Essential Oil Association of the U.S.A. and now recommended by the... 

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