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6 . 2020

Development and validation of methodology of quantitative determination of sibutramine in dietary supplements by high performance liquid chromatography

Abstract

Sibutramine is a highly effective drug for the treatment of obesity. In this regard, unscrupulous manufacturers can add sibutramine as a biologically active synthetic substance prohibited for use in the composition of dietary supplements. Thus, the problem associated with the illegal circulation of such dietary supplements is especially actual, given the scale of the sale of these products. The development and validation of methods for the determination of sibutramine in dietary supplements for slimming (anorexigenic action) for the purpose of quality control in order to ensure the quality of dietary supplements when introduced into civil circulation at customs and on the market.

The aim of the study - to develop a method for the quantitative determination of sibutramin in dietary supplements for weight loss by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and to validate it.

Material and methods. For the quantitative determination of sibutramine in dietary supplements, we used an Agilent 1100 high performance liquid chromatograph with a UV-detector. The stationary phase was a chromatographic column C18 NU CLEOSIL 4.6x 150 mm, particle size 5 pm. The mobile phase contained 0.05 M formate buffer pH 4.0 and acetonitrile in a ratio of 40:60 (by volume).

Results and discussion. A methodology has been developed for the determination of sibutramine in dietary supplements for weight loss, which makes it possible to control the quality of dietary supplements. Based on the obtained chromatograms, the specificity was determined; the plant components did not influence the determination of sibutramine in model mixtures. The suitability of the chromatographic system was determined: the retention factor of the compound - 2.222 (more than 2.0), N - 5776 theoretical plates (more than 5000), Tpeak of sibutramine - 0.939 (not more than 1.5). Within the analytical area of the linearity method: R2=0.9993 (over 0.9950). ε=0.46% (does not exceed 1.5%), the confidence interval includes the value of 100%, the calculated value of the Student’s criterion tcalc (2.47) was less than the tabular ttable (2.80), which proved the correctness of the methodology. The precision of the results was determined by the obtained RSD value, which was 0.91% (less than 1%). Limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) took values of 0.1 and 1.0%, respectively. The range of measured concentrations was 0.01-20.0 mg/g.

Conclusion. As a result of the studies, the method for sibutramine determination in dietary supplements with anorexigenic action was tested and can be used in quality control of dietary supplements.

Keywords:sibutramine, high performance liquid chromatography, validation, dietary supplements, quality control

Funding. The research was carried out at the expense of the subsidy for the implementation of the state task.

Conflict of interests. The authors declare no conflict of interests.

For citation: Sukhanova A.M., Perova I.B., Koshechkina A.S., Rylina E.V., Tumolskaya E.V., Rodionova G.M. Development and validation of methodology of quantitative determination of sibutramine in dietary supplements by high performance liquid chromatography. Voprosy pitaniia [Problems of Nutrition]. 2020; 89 (6): 123-9. DOI: 10.24411/0042-8833-2020-10085 (in Russian)

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