Well-oriented immobilized immunoaffinity magnetic beads for detection of fumonisins in grains and feeds via pre-column automatic derivatization of high-performance liquid chromatography.

In this study, based on the high-throughput automatic sample pretreatment with immunoaffinity magnetic beads with oriented immobilized antibodies, grain and feed fumonisin (FB) content was detected using pre-column automatic derivatization of high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The FB capacity of well-oriented antibody immunoaffinity magnetic beads was 1.5-1.8 times that of magnetic beads with randomly fixed antibody. This pre-column automatic derivatization method using an autosampler can reduce error from manual injection and improve detection efficiency. The spiked recoveries for three different concentrations in maize, husked rice, and pig feed under optimized conditions were 84.6-104.0% (RSD < 9.3%). Our novel method was also applied to the analysis of FBs in 63 maize samples collected from the main maize-production regions in China. The results showed that as latitude increased, the contamination level of FBs tended to decrease. High temperature and high humidity are also more favorable for FB growth.
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