AUTHOR=Zhao Lingguo , Lv Ronggui , Song Jiang , Chen Xi , Lei Lei , Zeng Weixian , She Miaowen , Li Dabing , Yu Xiaxia , Liu Zhanguo , Wang Xiao , Liu Yong TITLE=Establishment and evaluation of a UPLC-MS/MS method for simultaneous determination of bongkrekic acid and dehydroacetic acid in rice noodles JOURNAL=Frontiers in Chemistry VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2024 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/chemistry/articles/10.3389/fchem.2024.1386635 DOI=10.3389/fchem.2024.1386635 ISSN=2296-2646 ABSTRACT=A UPLC-MS/MS method with one-step extraction and simultaneous determination of bongkrekic acid (BA) and dehydroacetic acid (DHA) in rice noodles has been established in this study for the first time. The extraction solvent consisted of a mixture of methanol, ammonia, and water. Electrospray ionization negative ion mode (ESI-) was used for multiple reaction detection and external standard method was used for quantitative determination. The method demonstrated a good linearity range of 0 to 50 ng/mL with a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.9998 for BA, and showed a linearity range of 0~500 ng/mL with r of 0.9993 for DHA. The limits of detection (LOD) were determined to be 0.1 μg/kg for BA and 0.6 μg/kg for DHA. Additionally, the method exhibited good recovery of 90.1%~105.4% for BA and 80.4%~102% for DHA.