Food isotope analysis

The diet of the 19 century residents of Upper Canada was determined from historical sources and was reproduced in order to carry out chemical analysis. Stable carbon isotope analysis of food and human bone demonstrates that the spacing between the food eaten and the bone collagen is around 5.6%o. The value may vary slightly from this estimate since the latter is based on a reconstructed diet and a large number of bone samples, which exhibit a small amount of variation. Nevertheless, this empirically derived result agrees well with estimates from field (Vogel 1978), and laboratory studies (reviewed in Ambrose 1993). 

Marino, B.D. and DeNiro, M.J. 1987 Isotopic analysis of archaeobotanicals to reconstruct past climates Effects of activities associated with food preparation on carbon, hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios of plant cellulose. Journal of Archaeological Science 14 537-548. 

Atwell L, Hobson KA, Welch HE. 1998. Biomagnilication and bioaccumulation of mercury in an arctic marine food web insights from stable nitrogen isotope analysis. Can J Fish Aquat Sci 55 1114-1121. 

Morton, J. D. and Schwarcz, H. P. (1988) Stable isotope analysis of food residues from Ontario ceramics In 26th International Archaeometry Symposium, Toronto (Ed. Farquarhar, R.), University of Toronto, Toronto, pp. 89 93. 

Ramsay, M. A. and Hobson, K. A. (1991) Polar bears make little use of terrestrial food webs evidence from stable carbon isotope analysis. Oecologia 86, 598 600. 

Wada, E., Mizutani, H. and Minagawa, M. (1991). The use of stable isotopes for food web analysis. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition 30 361-371. 

Zah R, Burgherr P, Bemasconi S, Uehlinger U (2001) Stable isotope analysis of macroinvertebrates and their food sources in a glacier stream. Freshw Biol 46 871... 

Tittlemier SA, Fisk AT, Hobson KA, Norstrom RJ (2002) Examination of the Bioaccumulation of Halogenated Dimethyl Bipyrroles in an Arctic Marine Food Web Using Stable Nitrogen Isotope Analysis. Environ Pollut 116 85... 

Remaud, G. S., Martin, Y. L., Martin, G. G., Naulet, N., and Martin, G. J. (1997). Authentication of mustard oils by combined stable isotope analysis (SNIF-NMR and IRMS). ]. Agric. Food Chern. 45,1844—1848. 

Currin, C. A., S. Y. Newell, and H. W. Paerl. 1995. The role of standing dead Spartina alterniflora and benthic microalgae in salt marsh food webs Considerations based on multiple stable isotope analysis. Marine Ecology Progress Series 121 99-116. 

Lichtfouse, E. (2000). Compound-specific isotope analysis, application to archael-ogy, biomedical sciences, biosynthesis, environment, extraterrestrial chemistry, food science, forensic science, humic substances, microbiology, organic geochemistry, soil science and sport. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 14, 1337-1344. 

Kwak, T.J., and Zedler, J. (1997) Food web analysis of southern California coastal wetlands using multiple stable isotopes. Oecologia 110, 262-277. 

Macko, S.A., Estep, M.L., and Lee, W.Y. (1983) Stable hydrogen isotope analysis of food webs on laboratory and field populations of marine amphipods. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 72, 243-249. 

Spangenberg, J.E. and Ogrinc, N. (2001) Authentication of vegetable oils by bulk and molecular carbon isotope analysis with emphasis on olive oil and pumpkin seed oil. J. Agric. Food Chem., 49, 1534-1540. 

Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry ICP-MS has been accepted as a powerful technique for elemental and isotopic analysis [21D25]. It is characterized by a linear dynamic range of Eve to six orders of magnitude, rapid multielemental analysis, comparative freedom from spectral interferences, and LoDs in the range of 10D100 pg mL-1 for most elements. This makes it ideal for the multielemental analysis of food samples on a routine basis. 

A. Rossmann, G. Haberhauer, S. Holzl, P. Horn, F. Pichelmayer, S. Voerkelius, The potential of multielement stable isotope analysis for regional origin assignment of butter, Eur. Food Res. Technol., 211 (2000), 32-40. 

The application of speciated isotope dilution mass spectrometry (SIDMS) in speciation analysis was described and discussed by Huo et al. [236]. According to Encinar [237], isotopic analysis of a solution can be used to evaluate the application of various speciation forms of elements in food and in medications. 

Kelly, S., Heaton, K. and Hoogewerff, J. (2005) Tracing the geographical origin of food the application of multi-element and multi-isotope analysis. Trends Food Sci. Technol., 16, 555-567. 

J. Bricout (1982) Possibilities of stable isotope analysis in the control of food products... 

J. Bricout, J. Koziet (1978) Characterization of synthetic substances in food flavors by isotopic analysis. In G. Charalambous, G.E. Inglett (eds.) Flavor of Foods and Beverages Chemistry and Technology. Academic Press, New York, pp. 199-208... 

G. Remaud (1993) Technical improvements of SNIF-NMR application to mustard oil. In 2" European Symposium Food Authenticity - Isotope Analysis and Other Advanced Analytical Techniques, 20-22 October 1993, Eurofins, Nantes (France)... 

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