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Fish has been recognized as one of the “Big-Eight” allergenic food sources with parvalbumin (PV) being one of the major allergens. Here, we report a novel immunomagnetic beads-derived enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) method which employs antibody functionalized graphene oxide (GO) and gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) to amplify the detection signal of PV. The GO and AuNPs are modified with monoclonal antibody (mAb) and HRP-labeled secondary antibody respectively to detect the PV captured by amino-functionalized magnetic beads. With the amplification effect of the antibody modified GO and AuNPs, the proposed ELISA could selectively detect PV with a detection limit as low as 4.29 ng/mL when using pure PV. Moreover, the recovery rates are found to range from 89.82% to 115.37% in the spiked samples. The feasibility in real-world fish sample analysis further shows that the proposed immunomagnetic beads-derived ELISA is a highly promising approach for PV detection and pave a new way for food safety analysis.

Tropomyosin (TM), known as the major allergen in seafood, has been increasing concerns in industrialized countries. We proposed a simple, rapid and accurate analytical method using surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor with gold patterned biochips for detection and quantification of TM in shellfish. The limit of detection (LOD) was 1.0 μg mL−1 (S/N = 3), while the limit of quantitation (LOQ) was 2.5 μg mL−1 (S/N = 10). Moreover, the satisfactory recoveries (92.0–108.0%) was obtained for TM detection in food samples, showing the good accuracy of this method. Furthermore, the results also demonstrated that this developed method is suitable for the determination of TM from different shellfish species within 3 min. Therefore, the developed SPR sensor with gold patterned biochips will have positive significance on the rapid and accurate detection allergens in shellfish foodstuffs, related products and their production lines in the future.