title: Interlaboratory comparison studies for the improvement of the analysis of zearalenone in Europe.
abstract: The employed analytical methods and results of a current large-scale study in the field of the analysis of zearalenone have been compared to several previous interlaboratory comparison studies. Generally, a change in the clean-up techniques could be observed. The more frequent use of immunoaffinity clean-up techniques and the employment of a common reference calibrant resulted in a considerable improvement of the agreement of results between the participating laboratories and an enhanced performance of the employed methods.
authors.affiliation: IFA-Tulln, Center for Analytical Chemistry, Konrad Lorenz-Str. 20, A-3430, Tulln, Austria.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Josephs
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Krska