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7 . Any general comments about
the method?
Based on the above comments, I do not recommend this method to be considered
for further steps.
Do you recommend this method be
adopted as a First Action and
published in the Official Methods
of Analysis of AOAC
INTERNATIONAL? Please specify
rationale.
The method cannot distinguish the esterified and nonesterified forms of
xanthophylls. In addition, this method did not document any information about beta‐
cryptoxanthin. Therefore, I do not recommend this method to be considered for a
First Action.
V. Recommendation for the Method