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An adaptation of the American Oil Chemists' Society Official Method Cd 8–53 for determining peroxides in fats and oils using a 0.5-g sample is described. Comparisons of the Official Method and the small-scale method were performed by analyzing soybean oil samples spiked with t-butyl hydroperoxide and autoxidized soybean oil samples. A linear relationship between the Official Method and the small-scale method was obtained with an R 2 of 0.998. The small-scale method is sensitive, precise, and suitable for small sample sizes and uses only about 10% of the chemicals necessary for the Official Method.
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Crowe, T.D., White, P.J. Adaptation of the AOCS official method for measuring hydroperoxides from small-scale oil samples. J Amer Oil Chem Soc 78, 1267–1269 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-001-0424-7
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