J. Weingaertner et al., USE OF MYCOSEP MULTIFUNCTIONAL CLEANUP COLUMNS FOR THE DETERMINATION OF TRICHOTHECENES IN WHEAT BY ELECTRON-CAPTURE GAS-CHROMATOGRAPHY, Fresenius' journal of analytical chemistry, 357(8), 1997, pp. 1206-1210
A quick and reliable method is described for the determination of tric
hothecene mycotoxins employing gas chromatography with electron captur
e detection. Using the Mycosep(R) multifunctional clean-up columns the
clean-up procedure is reduced to a 1-step extract purification, thus
saving considerable time in comparison with classical clean-up methods
, without sacrificing the purity of the extract. The method was tested
and validated for five trichothecenes (deoxynivalenol, nivalenol, 3-a
cetyl-deoxynivalenol, 15-acetyl-deoxynivalenol and fusarenon X). In ad
dition, the performance of this new clean-up technique was compared wi
th an already well established method.