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Simultaneous determination of trichothecene mycotoxins in cereals by LC-MS/MS

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This study was designed to determine the residual trichothecene mycotoxins in cereal samples. The optimal solvent for extraction was 84% (v/v) aqueous acetonitrile with 1% (v/v) formic acid. The best performing clean-up method was dispersive-solid phase with a mixture octadecyl silica and primary-secondary amine. The recoveries for the studied mycotoxins ranged from 83.3 to 92.8%. The methodology was successfully applied for monitoring 100 cereal samples obtained from a Korean market. The bean sample were found to be co-contamination with deoxynivalenol and HT-2 toxin. Deoxynivalenol possessed the highest detection freauency (4/100) and amount (727.38 µg/kg) among the trichothecene mycotoxins. The hazard index was less than 1.0 for all the observed mycotoxins in all cereal samples except one white rice sample (1.2681). This results indicated that periodic risk assessments of trichothecene mycotoxin through cereal intake are necessary for the health and safety.

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This study was supported by the Main Research Program (E0156500-03) of the Korea Food Research Institute (KFRI) funded by the Ministry of Science and ICT.

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This work was supported by Korea Institute of Planning and Evaluation for Technology in Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (IPET) through Export Promotion Technology Development Program, funded by Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (GA119027-3).

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    Dan-Bi Kim, Young Sung Jung, Sanghee Lee & Miyoung Yoo

  2. Major of Food Science and Biotechnology, Division of Bioconvergence, Kyonggi University, Suwon, 16227, Republic of Korea

    Tae Gyu Nam

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Kim, DB., Jung, Y.S., Nam, T.G. et al. Simultaneous determination of trichothecene mycotoxins in cereals by LC-MS/MS. Food Sci Biotechnol 31, 165–174 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10068-021-01024-5

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