title: Analysis of aflatoxins in various food and feed matrices-results of international validation studies.
abstract: Collaborative studies were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of analytical methods based on immunoaffinity column clean-up prior to high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for the determination of aflatoxin B1 and total aflatoxins at European regulatory limits in various food products (4 ng/g total aflatoxins, 2 ng/g aflatoxin B1), baby food (0.1 ng/g aflatoxin B1 in discussion) and feeding stuff (1 ng/g aflatoxin B1 in discussion).The methods showed acceptable within-laboratory and between-laboratory precision for all matrices at these low levels for the determination of both, total aflatoxins and aflatoxin B1.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, Joint Research Centre of the European Communities, Food Products and Consumer Goods Unit, I-21020, Ispra (VA), Italy.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stroka
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Anklam