Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of naturally occurring, soil-borne fungi. Regulated in more than 77 countries due to serious risks to human and animal health, mycotoxins appear during crop cultivation, raw materials storage, food or feed processing, and may move undetected into finished products destined for supermarket shelves.
Waters and VICAM mycotoxin monitoring solutions enable food manufacturers and testing laboratories to quickly:
Assess inbound raw materials quality
Monitor finished processed products
Verify compliance with global regulatory limits
Perform reliable, qualitative and quantitative detection of key mycotoxins and minimize the costly consequences of mycotoxin contamination with Waters mycotoxin testing solutions.
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UPLC chromatograms from analysis of milk before (above) and after spiking with 0.005 µg/kg AFM1 (below).
Elution order and representative chromatogram of the tested mycotoxins (matrix-matched standard on wheat extract).
Matrix-matched calibration curves and residual plots for aflatoxin B1 and ochratoxin A.
Typical calibration graphs for several regulated mycotoxins (internally standardized).
