Occurrence of zearalenone in wheat kernels infected with Fusarium culmorum

Author:

Neuhof T.1,Koch M.1,Rasenko T.1,Nehls I.1

Affiliation:

1. BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Division I.2 Organic Chemical Analysis; Reference Materials, Richard-Willstätter-Straße 11, 12489 Berlin, Germany

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the distribution of zearalenone in wheat kernels contaminated with this mycotoxin. Kernels from a sample of a wheat harvest affected by Fusarium culmorum were sorted into six groups according to their visual attributes. Milled portions of these groups were analysed by high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence and diode array detection. The clean-up was performed with an immunoaffinity column after methanol/water (4:1, v/v) extraction. The zearalenone content of the unsorted kernel fraction was 74 µg/kg. The group of healthy-looking kernels was contaminated with only 6 µg/kg of zearalenone. The groups of kernels that appeared shrunken and chalky white, damage routinely caused by Fusarium, were contaminated with 170 and 117 µg/kg, respectively. A remarkably high level of zearalenone contamination, 2,184 µg/kg, was observed for the group of reddish kernels. An association between the presence of the red pigment aurofusarin and high levels of zearalenone was found. Therefore, this pigment may be used as a marker of high zearalenone content.

Publisher

Wageningen Academic Publishers

Subject

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,Toxicology,Food Science

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