Table 3 Products supplied to the laboratories participating in the ring trial.

From: Interlaboratory validation of an optimized protocol for measuring α-amylase activity by the INFOGEST international research network

Panel A: chemicals

Name

CAS number

Purity

Product code

Brand

Sodium phosphate monobasic anhydrous

7558–80-7

 ≥ 99.0%

S0751-100G

Sigma-Aldrich

Sodium chloride

7647–14-5

 ≥ 99.5%

71,380-1 KG-M

Sigma-Aldrich

Sodium phosphate dibasic anhydrous

7558–79-4

 ≥ 99.0%

BP332-1

Fisher Chemical™

Starch from potato

9005–25-8

N/A

S2004-500G

Sigma-aldrich

3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid

609–99-4

 ≥ 98%

D-0550

Sigma-aldrich

Potassium sodium tartrate tetrahydrate

6381–59-5

 ≥ 99.0%

S2377-1 KG

Sigma-aldrich

Maltose monohydrate

6363–53-7

General purpose grade

M/1450/48

Fisher chemical™

Panel B: Test products

Commercial name

Designation in the manuscript

Origin

Product code1

Brand

α-amylase (porcine pancreatic)

α-amylase M

Porcine pancreas

E-PANAA-12G

Megazyme

Pancreatic α-amylase from porcine pancreas Type VI-B

α-amylase S

Porcine pancreas

A3176-500KU

Sigma-aldrich

Pancreatin from porcine pancreas

Pancreatin

Porcine pancreas

P7545-25G

Sigma-aldrich

Saliva, pooled Human Donors

Human saliva

Pool from 10 healthy adults

991-05-P

Medix biochemica

  1. 1The batch numbers of the products tested can be found in the supplementary material.