Determination and Analysis of Muscone Content in Musk Produced by Captive Forest Musk Deer
Abstract:Objective:Musk ketone of musk produced by captive forest musk deer was determined by gas chromatography (GC) to provide reference for rapid determination of musk quality. Methods:After unified sampling,1 g of fresh musk was weighed in each musk sample,and the content of muscone was determined by GC to find out the correlation between musk of different ages,musk yield,musk color and muscone. Results:According to the age group,the musk yield of 1-year-old musk deer was not the highest,but the moisture content was low,the musk ketone content was the highest,and the musk quality of 7-year-old and above forest musk deer was lower. According to the musk yield of the same age group,the mass fraction of musk ketone in musk with a fresh yield of more than 10 g was greater than 2.0%,and the quality of musk was higher. According to the analysis of the color of musk,the content of muscone in the red brown musk was the highest,and the moisture content was the lowest. It is the musk if the good quality,and the white musk has the worst quality. Conclusion:According to the results of field sampling,it can be determined that the quality of the first-produced musk and the musk whose yield is higher than 10 g are higher,and the red brown musk is a high-quality musk.