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Chirality. 2016 Jan;28(1):78-84. doi: 10.1002/chir.22545. Epub 2015 Oct 26.

Stereoselective Behavior of the Chiral Herbicides Diclofop-Methyl and Diclofop During the Soy Sauce Brewing Process.

Chirality

Yuele Lu, Dong Zhang, Yahui Liao, Jinling Diao, Xiaolong Chen

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Fermentation Engineering, College of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China.
  2. Department of Applied Chemistry, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China.

PMID: 26501920 DOI: 10.1002/chir.22545

Abstract

Chiral pesticides are now receiving more and more attention in the food-making process. This experiment studied the enantioselective behavior of diclofop-methyl (DM) and its main metabolite, diclofop (DC), during the soy sauce brewing process. Two kinds of commonly used strains, Aspergillus oryzae and Saccharomyces rouxii, were investigated. However, they showed a different degradation ability to the enantiomers of DM and DC. It was observed that (-)-(S)-DM was degraded much faster than (+)-(R)-DM by Saccharomyces rouxii, while no stereoselective degradation was found by Aspergillus oryzae. DC represented a relatively long residue period in this fermentation process and both strains showed a weak degradation ability to DC, especially Saccharomyces rouxii. There was little DC detected in the final product, while most of the DC residues persisted in the lees, which were usually used as animal feeds or discarded into the environment directly as waste. Therefore, more attention should be paid to the soy sauce brewing process concerning pesticide residues both in the final product and byproducts.

© 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Keywords: chiral pesticide; food safety; microbial degradation; soy sauce fermentation; stereoselective behavior

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