GC-MS Meat fatty acid

Hello everyone, I need your help. I am a graduate student and I'm doing research on improving beef quality. In analysis, I want to look at fatty acids C14:0, C…

1. Food & Material Scientist reply

   this is very basic, and plenty of published papers are available on this. you may pick and try step by step.

2. Hilal reply

   Thank you for your answer Yes, it seems so, but hydrogen was used as the carrier gas in the studies with the fatty acids I wanted. Or studies on the fatty acids I want have not be…

3. Food & Material Scientist reply

   Firstly, using a carrier gas be it any that you mentioned is just a basics. Secondly you never mentioned or havent considered the first step, that is converting FA to FAME. Try ou…

4. Hilal reply

   Thank you for your answer, Yes I know it won't be 100%. Well, FID detector was used in the analysis, what should we do when our detector MS is like this? Can you give me informati…

5. Mohammad reply

   How do you expect to obtain reliable result without using a standard, and you said ''it’s an important part of the project''? I supposed if the analysis is that important part of…

6. Hilal reply

   My academic advisor and I are trying to handle this with the lab we are going to analyze. But I want to create a plan B just in case.

7. Food & Material Scientist reply

   i guess sometimes it all comes by doing it once, and later throwing in queries....because all these tips are no longer useful, until you give a try..

8. Food & Material Scientist reply

   these are fundamentals and hence please read about it. And i am sure your supervisor have already provided you with enough information.