Table 9 Pictograms of the greenness assessment of the developed method using GAPI and AGREE tools.

From: Spectrofluorimetric determination of butylated hydroxytoluene and butylated hydroxyanisole in their combined formulation: application to butylated hydroxyanisole residual analysis in milk and butter

Representative pictogram

Dosage form

Milk

Butter

GAPIa

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AGREEb

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  1. aThe colour of the pictogram sections are green, yellow, and red indicating the low, medium and high environmental effect for each step of the procedures.
  2. bThe pictogram has total score of fraction of unity in the middle of the pictogram with values approaching 1 proving greener procedures and the number in each of the twelve sections of the pictogram referring to the criterion under investigation, each section’ width indicates their importance and the range of colour from deep green to deep red indicates the performance of the each criterion.
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