Journal Article
The reliability of MOSH/MOAH data: a comment on a recently published article
Stefanka Bratinova; Eddo Hoekstra; Hendrik Emons; Christoph Hutzler; Oliver Kappenstein; Maurus Biedermann; Gregor McCombie
Journal of Consumer Protection and Food Safety · Vol. 15, Issue 3 · pp. 285-287 · 2020
Abstract
In this article, we analyse recently published material by Koster et al. (Food Addit Contam Part A, 10.1080/19440049.2019.1678770 , 2019) entitled “Mineral Oil Hydrocarbons in Foods: Is the Data Reliable?”. Koster et al. claim to have traced the reasons for laboratory failures to “deliver robust and reliable test results” for the analysis of MOSH/MOAH in some food matrices, however, a careful review revealed that this publication falls short in considering several aspects of assessing the reliability and comparability of analytical data produced by different laboratories.