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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.
I think that the proposed method could be a candidate for the quantification of
curcuminoids giving good separation of the three explored compounds (curcumin,
demethoxycurcumin and bisdemethoxycurcumin). However it suffers from some
limitations, such as the lack of supporting data on recovery in addition to the
improvement of repeatability results. Therefore and in the prsented form, I don't
think that the prtoposed method could be adopted as a First Action