Certification Becomes Important for the Quality and Safety Supervision of the Chinese Liquor Sector

The end of 2007, over 200 unit products of more than 80 Chinese firms have passed the quality grade certification for liquor products. These products involve distilled spirits, beer, wine, yellow wine, fruit syrup wine and others, and cover over 80% of the national top-branded liquor products.……

Multi-element analysis of Baijiu(Chinese liquors)by ICP-MS and their classification according to geographical origin

Objectives:Investigating the element profiles of Be,Al,V,Cr,Mn,Fe,Co,Ni,Cu,Zn,As,Se,Rb,Sr,Ag,Cd,Cs,La,Pr,Nd,Sm,Eu,Gd,Pb,Th,and U of Baijiu(Chinese liquors),and setting up their classification according to geographical origin.Materials and Methods:Twenty-eight Chinese liquors from Shandong,Guizhou,and Sichuan provinces were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry with the aid of matrix matching,online internal calibration,and direct injection to determine the concentrations of the aforementioned 26 elements.Multivariate statistical analysis,based on the contents of elements in the liquors,was applied to differentiate the liquors from different origins.Results:Both the cluster analysis based on 11 elements and the discriminant analysis based on 5 elements can separate the liquors of Shandong Province from others.A leave-one-out cross test of the discriminant analysis data resulted in 100 per cent accuracy regarding the recognition ability and prediction ability for the liquors from Shandong Province,and an overall 75.0 per cent accuracy of its prediction for all the 28 total liquors.Limitations:The liquors of Guizhou and Sichuan provinces can not be differentiated successfully.Conclusions:The liquors produced in Shandong Province can be differentiated in a great extent from Guizhou and Sichuan provinces based on the multivariate statistical analysis of the concentration of elements in liquors,while those of Guizhou and Sichuan provinces can not be differentiated successfully due to their geographical adjacency.

Idiopathic mesenteric phlebosclerosis associated with long-term use of medical liquor:Two case reports and literature review

A 62-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital in2011 because of recurrent abdominal pain,nausea and constipation for six months.Computed tomography enterography(CTE)showed tortuous thread-like calcifications in the ileocolic vein and right colic vein,while colonoscopy revealed purple-blue mucosa extending from the cecum to the splenic flexure.Based on the results of these tests,the patient was diagnosed with idiopathic mesenteric phlebosclerosis(IMP).She had a history of Chinese medical liquor intake for one and a half years and her symptoms subsided after conservative treatment.In 2013,a 63-year-old male patient who presented with recurrent lower right abdominal pain,bloating,melena and diarrhea for fifteen months was admitted to our institution.Colonoscopy and CTE led to the diagnosis of IMP.He also used Chinese medical liquor for approximately 12 years.The patient underwent total colectomy and the postoperative course was uneventful.We searched for previously published reports on similar cases and analyzed the clinical data of 50 cases identified in PubMed.As some of these patients admitted use of Chinese medicines,we hypothesize that Chinese medicines may play a role in the pathogenesis of IMP.