Occurrence of aflatoxins in tigernuts and their beverages commercialized in Spain

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2609-2612

  Sebastià, Natividad ^a   Soler, Carla ^a   Soriano, José Miguel ^a   Mães, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aflatoxlns; Fluorescence detection; Liquid chromatography; MSPD; Tigernut beverages; Tigernuts

Indexed keywords

AFLATOXIN; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; BEVERAGE; CHEMISTRY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; NUT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ULTRASOUND;

AFLATOXINS; BEVERAGES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; NUTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLVENTS; SPAIN; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 77249172198     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: 15205118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf903818x     Document Type: Article

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