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Acrylamide (AA) is a potentially carcinogenic substance which is formed during heating of food products containing carbohydrates and asparagine. It was first detected in food products in 2002. Since that time, several analytical methods have been made available for the quantification of AA in various foods. Starting from the announcement in 2002, occurrence, formation, chemistry, toxicology, and potential health risk in the human diet have been investigated and methods of analysis have been reviewed in many articles. In this paper, current information and analytical methods for the determination of AA have been reviewed.

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This current study aimed to develop a simple, fast, and reproducible isocratic reverse-phase ultra-fast liquid chromatographic (RP-UFLC) method to detect and quantify maprotiline hydrochloride (MAP) in bulk drug and pharmaceutical formulations. Chromatographic separation was accomplished on a C18 column (100 × 4mm, 3 μm) under isocratic elution with the use of a binary solution of acetonitrile and phosphate buffer at a pH of 7 (75 : 25, v/v) and a flow rate of 0.4 mL per minute at 215 nm. The linearity was excellent in the concentration range of MAP from 0.1 to 1.5 µg/mL with a regression coefficient of 0.9996. The proposed method was validated with the respective ICH guidelines. The drug was subjected to hydrolytic, acidic, basic, thermal, photolytic, and oxidative stress conditions as required by the ICH regulation. The method was found to be suitable for use in routine practice to analyze MAP in the pharmaceutical dosage form.

Across all the centers there were small differences in the pretreatment evaluation of patients with oropharyngeal cancer. The greatest difference was in the technical delivery of radiation, with most of the centers using conformal radiotherapy despite the increasing availability of intensity-modulated radiotherapy. The use of chemotherapy has more readily adopted the current international standards in the treatment of oropharyngeal cancer.