title: Determination of mycotoxins in bee pollen by gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.
abstract: Bee pollen, promoted as a natural food supplement, is consumed increasingly by people to maintain a healthy diet. Depending on environmental conditions, pollen can also be an optimum medium for growth of molds such as  Fusarium  and  Penicillium . A quick, easy, cheap, rapid, and safe (QuEChERS) extraction procedure followed by a gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) determination of eight selected Fusarium toxins in bee pollen was developed and optimized. Recovery studies at 20, 80, and 1000 μg/kg showed values between 73 and 95% with relative standard deviations (RSDs) of <15% for all studied mycotoxins. Limits of quantitation (LOQ) ranged from 1 to 4 μg/kg. The proposed method was applied to the analysis of 15 commercial samples. Two of 15 samples showed quantifiable values for neosolaniol and nivalenol.
authors: Department of Food Science, University of Valencia, Burjassot, Spain.
authors: Yelko
authors: Y
authors: Rodríguez-Carrasco
authors: Guillermina
authors: G
authors: Font
authors: Jordi
authors: J
authors: Mañes
authors: Houda
authors: H
authors: Berrada
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees; D019587:Dietary Supplements / Q000032:analysis; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis*; D005670:Fusarium / Q000378:metabolism; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods*; D009183:Mycotoxins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D011058:Pollen / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D009183:Mycotoxins