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Advances in the Analysis of Total Aflatoxins in Foods  

Oh Keum-Soon (Department of Food Evaluation, Korea Food & Drug Administration)
Suh Jung-Hyuk (Department of Food Evaluation, Korea Food & Drug Administration)
Park Seong-Soo (Seoul regional of KFDA)
Sho You-Sub (Department of Food Evaluation, Korea Food & Drug Administration)
Choi Woo-Jeong (Gyeongin Regional of KFDA)
An Yeong-Sun (Food Safety Policy Team, Korea Food & Drug Administration)
Lee Jong-Ok (Department of Food Evaluation, Korea Food & Drug Administration)
Woo Gun-Jo (Department of Food Evaluation, Korea Food & Drug Administration)
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Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety / v.21, no.2, 2006 , pp. 76-81 More about this Journal
Abstract
We optimized conditions of extract solvents and elution solvents for total aflatoxins in foods using HPLC/FLD. The extract solvent was 70% methanol solution including 1% NaCl and the 3 mL of acetonitrile was used as elution solvent using immnuoaffinity column. The detection limits (LOD) was 0.05 ng/g. The recoveries for total aflatoxins ($B_1,\;B_2,\;G_1\;and\;G_2$) studied in foods were cereals ($74.1{\sim}95.5%,\;83.7{\sim}98.8%,\;80.4{\sim}102.4%,\;72.8{\sim}76.5%$), pulses ($85.8{\sim}87.5%,\;83.8{\sim}90.7%,\;92.0{\sim}94.5%,\;60.6{\sim}65.6%$), nuts ($84.6{\sim}97.1%,\;86.0{\sim}94.1%,\;95.5{\sim}111.5%,\;71.0{\sim}89.9%$), processed foods ($81.5{\sim}87.1%,\;82.8{\sim}85.8%,\;85.4{\sim}92.7%,\;68.9{\sim}76.4%$), dried fruits ($83.6{\sim}93.5%,\;78.1{\sim}90.4%,\;93.0{\sim}108.5%,\;64.9{\sim}78.5%$) and other foods ($72.5{\sim}98.3%,\;73.1{\sim}96.4%,\;83.5{\sim}107.2%,\;64.2{\sim}75.8%$), respectively.
Keywords
aflatoxin; immunoaffinity column; recovery;
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