A Rapid Method with UPLC for the Determination of Fusaric Acid in Fusarium Strains and Commercial Food and Feed Products

Abstract

A rapid, sensitive and validated method for the determination of fusaric acid (FA) in several Fusarium strains and different commercial food and feed products is reported based on ultra-performance liquid chromatography. This method requires only crude sample by a simple extraction with methanol, and requires a very short time of 8 min for completion. Separation of FA was performed at injection volume of 1 ll with a 20:80 (v/v) water/acetonitrile mobile phase containing 0.1 % formic acid at a flow rate of 0.05 ml/min and detected with UV at 220 nm. Nice linearity and good correlation coefficient (R 2 [ 0.99) were obtained in the concentration range of 1-200 lg/ml. Validation was demonstrated using blank samples spiked at three different concentrations with standard solution, and the method yielded more than 98.2 % recovery efficiencies and below 2.56 % R.S.D. when applied in the analysis of FA produced by Fusarium verticillioides and a set of transgenic strains of this fungus. Satisfactory recoveries in the range of 79.1-105.8 % and R.S.D lower than 10 % were also obtained for the tested commercial food and feed products. The concentration FA detection in the transgenic strains ranged from 9.65 to 135 lg/kg (0.29-4.05 lg per gram of biomass). However, FA was not detected in most of the commercial products with the exception of niblet, oatmeal, red kidney bean and soybean, for which the concentrations of FA ranged from 2.5 to 18 lg/kg (below the permitted maximum). These results show that the proposed method has a great potential application to analyze FA from different sources rapidly.

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