Homeric Essays

Chromatographic analyses of volatile amines in marine fish

“…and trimethylamine in fish have been important for more than three decades in problems related1 to spoilage and effects of bacterial action in fish flesh during storage (Shewan, 1937(Shewan, , 1938Beatty and Collins, 1940;Dyer and Mounsey, 1945). During recent years, methylamine, diethylamine, triethylamine, «-propylamine, and «-butylamine, among several other primary, secondary, and tertiary amines, also have been noted in some fishery products (Sato et al, 1963;Minakowski and Rzewuski, 1965;Wick et al, 1967;Golovnya et al, 1967a,b;Amano et al, 1968).…”