<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Eric Deconinck</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bothy, J L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bart Desmedt</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Patricia Courselle</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">De Beer, J O</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Detection of whitening agents in illegal cosmetics using attenuated total reflectance-infrared spectroscopy.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J Pharm Biomed Anal</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">J Pharm Biomed Anal</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bleaching Agents</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cosmetics</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Principal Component Analysis</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Spectrophotometry, Infrared</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014 Sep</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">98</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">178-85</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Cosmetic products containing illegal whitening agents are still found on the European market. They represent a considerable risk to public health, since they are often characterised by severe side effects when used chronically. The detection of such products at customs is not always simple, due to misleading packaging and the existence of products containing only legal components. Therefore there is a need for easy to use equipment and techniques to perform an initial screening of samples. The use of attenuated total reflectance-infrared (ATR-IR) spectroscopy, combined with chemometrics, was evaluated for that purpose. It was found that the combination of ATR-IR with the simple chemometric technique k-nearest neighbours gave good results. A model was obtained in which a minimum of illegal samples was categorised as legal. The correctly classified illegal samples could be attributed to the illegal components present.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24927403?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record></records></xml>