Ergot alkaloids in some rye-based UK cereal products

Food Additives and Contaminants: Part B Surveillance

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 79-85

  Crews, C ^a   Anderson, W A C ^a   Rees, G ^a   Krska, R ^b  

^a FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cereals and grain; Chromatography gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC MS); Mycotoxins ergot; Organic foods; Screening assays

Indexed keywords

SECALE CEREALE;

ERGOT ALKALOID;

ANALYSIS; CEREAL; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; ORGANIC FOOD; PROCEDURES; RYE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TOXICITY; UNITED KINGDOM; VALIDATION STUDY;

CEREALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ERGOT ALKALOIDS; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD, ORGANIC; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE CONCENTRATION; SECALE CEREALE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 77649199969     PISSN: 19393210     EISSN: 19393229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02652030903042509     Document Type: Article

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