Undertaking a New Regulatory Challenge: Monitoring of Ergot Alkaloids in Italian Food Commodities.

ABSTRACT: The present manuscript reports on monitoring data of 12 ergot alkaloids (EAs) in cereal and cereal-derived products, collected in Italy over the period 2017-2020, for official control purposes under the edge of the Commission Recommendation 2012/154/EU on the monitoring of the presence of EAs in feed and food. To these purposes, an LC-MS/MS method was set up and applied, after in-house verification of its analytical performance. Besides satisfactory recoveries and precision, the method's quantification limits proved suitable to assess the compliance of cereals and cereal-based foods with the recently issued EU maximum permitted levels (Commission Regulation 2021/1399/EU). The validity of the generated data was also evaluated through the adoption of four proficiency tests, from which accept

SUBMITTER: Lattanzio VMT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8708126 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature