Two Years Monitoring of Ethyl Carbamate in Sugar Cane Spirit from Brazilian Distilleries

This paper describes the monitoring of ethyl carbamate concentration in sugar cane spirit from industrial distilleries in Brazil. In total, 18 distilleries from Minas Gerais and São Paulo states were evaluated, with, a total of 336 samples from August 2017 to August 2019. The ethyl carbamate was analyzed using a previously validated mass spectrometric method. Analytical curves presented coefficient of determination (R2) values higher than 0.99, and quality control samples showed a relative standard deviation (RSD) below 9%. Concentrations of ethyl carbamate ranged from not detected to 1608 µ...