Liquid chromatographic determination of deoxynivalenol in baby food and animal feed: interlaboratory study

J AOAC Int. 2006 Jul-Aug;89(4):1012-20.

Abstract

An interlaboratory study was conducted for the determination of deoxynivalenol in baby food and animal feed by high-performance liquid chromatography with UV detection. The study included 14 participants representing a cross section of industry, official food control, and research facilities. Mean recoveries reported ranged from 89% (at 120 microg/kg) to 85% (at 240 microg/kg) for baby food and from 100% (at 200 microg/kg) to 93% (at 400 microg/kg) for animal feed. On the basis of the results for spiked samples (blind duplicates at 2 levels), as well as those for naturally contaminated samples (blind duplicates at 3 levels), the relative standard deviation for repeatability (RSDr) in analyses of baby food ranged from 6.4 to 14.0% and in analyses of animal feed, from 6.1 to 16.5%. The relative standard deviation for reproducibility (RSDR) in analyses of baby food ranged from 9.4 to 19.5% and in analyses of animal feed, from 10.5 to 25.2%. The HorRat values ranged from 0.4 to 1.0 and from 0.7 to 1.3, for baby food and animal feed, respectively. The method showed acceptable performance for within-laboratory and between-laboratory precision for each matrix, as required by European legislation.

Publication types

  • Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

  • Animal Feed / analysis*
  • Chemistry Techniques, Analytical / methods*
  • Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid
  • Chromatography, Liquid / methods*
  • Food Analysis / methods*
  • Food Contamination
  • Infant Food / analysis*
  • Models, Statistical
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
  • Trichothecenes / analysis*

Substances

  • Trichothecenes
  • deoxynivalenol