The invention relates to a method for detecting musk
xylene in a tobacco additive and belongs to the technical field of detection of tobacco additives. The method comprises the following steps of: weighing 1.0g of tobacco additive and putting into a 50mL conical flask with a plug, adding 10mL of
ultrapure water of which electrical resistivity is 18.2 M
Omega and dispersing a sample, adding 0.3mL of D15-musk
xylene interior
label solution with the concentration of 1mu g / mL, and 10mL of
cyclohexane, oscillating and extracting at the temperature of 25 DEG C for 10 minutes, centrifuging a
mixed solution at rotation speed of 4,000r / min by a centrifugal
machine for 10 minutes, extracting an upper-layer organic phase, adding 10mL of chromatographically pure
cyclohexane into a water phase of which the upper-layer organic phase is extracted, performing secondary extraction under the same operation conditions, centrifuging, and extracting an upper-layer organic phase; and mixing the organic phases extracted twice,
drying by using
anhydrous sodium sulfate, and metering the volume to ensure that the volume is 1mL for
gas chromatography-
mass spectrometer (GC-MC) determination. The method has the advantages of high sensitivity and capacity of effectively determining the content of musk
xylene in the tobacco additive, and can determine the content of the musk xylene accurately and quickly, and is suitable for monitoring and self-inspection work of the highly-concerned musk xylene in the tobacco additive.