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Minicolumn screening methods for detecting aflatoxin: State of the art
Author(s) -
Romer T. R.,
Ghouri N.,
Boling T. M.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02909520
Subject(s) - aflatoxin , chromatography , chemistry , food science
The use of small chromatographic columns (minicolumns) for the detection of aflatoxin in food or feed extracts was introduced in 1968. Since then many different analytical methods for aflatoxin which involve a minicolumn detection step have been developed. Four of these have been adopted as official Association of Official Analytical Chemists (AOAC) procedures. The advantages and disadvantages of the types of minicolumns along with a comparison of the minicolumn technique to thin layer chromatography is discussed.