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Recovery and repeatabilty tests were menaged by emploing the above described method to lemon, mandarin, orange<br />

and bergamot essential oils. Cd (II), Cu (II), Pb (II), and Zn (II) recoveries always spanned from 95.00-100.50%<br />

evidencing that metals quantification remained unaffected by the clean-up steps. The repeatability was > 95.00% for<br />

Cd (II), Cu (II), Pb (II), and Zn (II) in all types of oils. Detection limits obtained for the four analytes, ranged from<br />

0.10 to 0.98 ng g -1 in lemon, mandarin, sweet orange and bergamot essential oils.<br />

Application<br />

Figure 1 show the concentration of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn in lemon, sweet orange, mandarin in Sicilian and Calabrian<br />

bergamot essential oils. It’s evident that Cd is the metal present in the lowest amount and Zn in the highest, in all types<br />

of essential oils. Cd concentration spanned from 2 to 23.3 ng g -1 ; Cu from 17.8 to 380.0 ng g -1 ; Pb ranged from 75.9 to<br />

180.3 ng g -1 and Zn from 804.5 to 1647.5 ng g -1 .<br />

Moreover, the concentration of Cd, Cu, Pb and Zn was determined in 13 samples of biological bergamot essential oils,<br />

and 13 non biological ones. Figure 2 evidences that there was any significant <strong>di</strong>fference between biological and non<br />

biological oils metals level.<br />

LITERATURE<br />

1. Di Giacomo A., Mincione B.Gli oli essenziali agrumari in Italia. 1994 Ed. Laruffa, p.196.<br />

2. Gorinstein S., Martin-Belloso O., Park Y. S., Haruenkit R., Lojek A., Ciz, M., Caspi A., Libman, I., Trakhtenberg<br />

S.Comparison of some biochemical characteristics of <strong>di</strong>fferent citrus fruit. Food Chem. 2001, 74, 309-315.<br />

3. Simpkins W.A., Honway, L., Wu M., Harrison M., Goldberg D. Trace elements in Australian orange juice and<br />

other products. Food Chem, 2000, 71, 423-433.<br />

4. Di Giacomo, A. Tecnologia dei prodotti agrumari. Parte II. 1988, duplicated lecture notes, Univrsità <strong>di</strong> Reggio<br />

Calabria, 95-120.<br />

5. La Pera L., Saitta M., Di Bella G., Dugo G.mo. Simultaneous determination of Cd (II), Cu (II) Pb (II) and Zn (II) in<br />

citrus essential oils by derivative potentiometric stripping analysis. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2003 in press<br />

6. La Pera L., Lo Curto S., Visco A., Dugo G.mo. Derivative Potentiometric Stripping Analysis (dPSA) used for<br />

determination of cadmium, copper, lead and zinc in in Sicilian olive oils. J. Agric. Food Chem. 2002, 50, 3090-<br />

3094.<br />

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