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Determination of mycotoxins in bee pollen by gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.
Jordi MañesYelko Rodríguez-carrascoHouda BerradaGuillermina Fontsubject
FusariumChromatographyGas Chromatography/Tandem Mass SpectrometrybiologyChemistryFood ContaminationGeneral ChemistryBeesMycotoxinsbiology.organism_classificationMass spectrometryQuechersmedicine.disease_causeGas Chromatography-Mass SpectrometryTriple quadrupole mass spectrometerchemistry.chemical_compoundFusariumBee pollenPollenDietary SupplementsmedicineAnimalsPollenGeneral Agricultural and Biological SciencesMycotoxindescription
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) of15% 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.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-02-18 | Journal of agricultural and food chemistry |