“…The indigenous bacteria, together with the abundant precursor amino acids available during the fermentation, could lead to concern about the accumulation of biogenic amines in Chinese rice wines. However, there are few studies on the identification and quantification of biogenic amines in Chinese rice wines (Huang et al, 2009;Lu et al, 2007). The objective of the present work, which represents a preliminary part of a wider research project aimed at control of biogenic amines in Chinese rice wines, was to determine the biogenic amines content of semi-dry and semi-sweet Chinese rice wines from the Shaoxing region using reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) coupled with ultraviolet (UV) detection after pre-column derivatization with benzoyl chloride.…”