Researchers at the Munich Technical University and Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority have developed a comprehensive mycotoxin screening method based on the use of LCTech's GPC ULTRA gel permeation chromatography instrument. Distributed by Pickering Laboratories in North America for sample cleanup prior to separation and detection, the new GPC instrument separates low weight mycotoxins from high molecular weight food constituents prior to high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) separation and mass spectroscopy (MS) detection. The new method lowers the cost of performing a comprehensive mycotoxin screen by detecting 31 mycotoxins in a single analysis run.
The researchers developed a method to detect 31 different mycotoxins, including ZEA, fumonisins, trichothecenes (types A, B and D), aflatoxins, ochratoxin A and other mycotoxins,