“…HPLC with refractive index detection can be used to measure DEG reliably only down to 20-50 mg/L (Bonn, 1985; Day et al, 1985), much higher than the Canadian limit. Recent methods (Kaplan et al, 1982;Holzer, 1985;Bandion et al, 1985; Boneva and Dimov, 1981) utilizing capillary gas chromatography provide enough sensitivity, but the direct injection of wine results in a variety of chromatographic problems such as rapid degradation of column performance, contamination of the injector liner, adsorption, and poor reproducibility. In addition, the resulting chromatograms from direct analysis on polar columns are usually very complex and thus make the identification and quantitation difficult.…”