Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture 36: 1-6, doi: 10.3897/ejfa.2024.118457
Effect of different smoking times and temperatures on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations in smoked sausages
Anindita Mali‡, Saurabh Kumar Laskar‡, Muthupalani Muthukumar§‡ Assam Agricultural University, Guwahati, India§ ICAR- National Meat Research Institute (Formerly NRC on Meat), Hyderabad, India
Corresponding author: Anindita Mali ( malianinditavet@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Radhakrishnan Subramanian © Anindita Mali, Saurabh Kumar Laskar, Muthupalani Muthukumar. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Mali A, Laskar SK, Muthukumar M (2024) Effect of different smoking times and temperatures on polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon concentrations in smoked sausages. Emirates Journal of Food and Agriculture 36: 1-6. https://doi.org/10.3897/ejfa.2024.118457 |  |
Abstract
Smoked pork and chicken sausages were prepared using three different time-temperature combinations; 60 °C for 4 hours, 75 °C for 3 hours, and 90 °C for 2 hours. The amount of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) present in these smoked products was estimated using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). The PAH compounds were identified using multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) and the retention time of that particular compound. The most potent carcinogenic PAH compound, benzo(a)pyrene (BaP), was not detected in any of the treatments analyzed. The pork and chicken sausages were found to contain the following PAH compounds: Flu, BaA, Chr, BbF, and BkF. Chrysene was found in all samples in the range from 27.38 to 45.08 µg/kg. It was observed that a higher smoking temperature (90 °C) resulted in more PAH compounds in the sausages. Furthermore, the chicken sausages were found to have higher concentrations of PAHs, particularly Chr and BaA, than the pork sausages.
Keywords
Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Smoked sausages, Smoking parameters