Development and validation of a rapid multi-biomarker liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry method to assess human exposure to mycotoxins.

  • Benedikt Warth
  • Michael Sulyok
  • Philipp Fruhmann
  • Hannes Mikula
  • Franz Berthiller
  • Rainer Schuhmacher
  • Christian Hametner
  • Wilfred Angie Abia
  • Gerhard Adam
  • Johannes Fröhlich
  • Rudolf Krska

Abstract

Mycotoxins regularly occur in food worldwide and pose serious health risks to consumers. Since individuals can be exposed to a variety of these toxic secondary metabolites of fungi at the same time, there is a demand for proper analytical methods to assess human exposure by suitable biomarkers.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number13
ISSN0951-4198
Publication statusPublished - 2012
pubmed 22638970