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The clarification or fining of wine removes undesirable substances such as proteins, phenols, and tannin compounds that would cloud the wine and cause bitterness and astringency. Caseinates have useful fining properties, but their residues could present a risk for allergic subjects. A commercial kit that was developed to detect caseinates in food has been examined for its applicability to a wine matrix; it is sensitive to caseinates at concentrations as low as 1 ppm. The general characteristics of the caseinate assay, described below in detail, are as follows. It is a sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA): the microplate is first coated with a specific anti-casein antibody; and after incubation with the wine sample, a secondary anti-casein antibody conjugated with horseradish peroxidase is added to form a sandwich. The antibodies have been tested for their immunoreactivity and the reproducibility of antigen recognition has been measured. An interlaboratory collaborative trial was organized to evaluate the performance of this ELISA method and its ease of use by laboratories routinely dealing with wine/food analyses. The results satisfy the criteria established by the International Organisation of Vine and Wine in the Compendium of International Methods of Analysis MA-EAS1-07-ETCOL.
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We acknowledge all laboratories involved in the collaborative study for their contribution and in particular the following persons: Marco Ciarrocchi (Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome), Luigi Falzarano (Dal Cin Gildo S.p.A), Linda Monaci (ISPA-CNR), Raffaella Boggia (Di.C.T.F.A. University of Genoa), and Laura Lucchi (Department of Pharmacological Sciences, University of Milan).
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Restani, P., Uberti, F., Tarantino, C. et al. Validation by a Collaborative Interlaboratory Study of an ELISA Method for the Detection of Caseinate Used as a Fining Agent in Wine. Food Anal. Methods 5, 480–486 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12161-011-9270-9
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