Arasains Webinar: Improve Your Laboratory Testing on Mycotoxins and Vitamins Analysis
In collaboration with R-Biopharm Rhone, subsidiary of R-Biopharm AG for Immunoaffinity Column and SPE for Mycotoxins and Vitamins, PT Arasains held webinar with interesting topic “Improve your laboratory testing on mycotoxins and vitamins analysis” on 26 March 2024. This topic covers for customers who runs mycotoxins and vitamins testing with HPLC or microtiter plate reader. There are 48 participants from various industry including government laboratory, commercial laboratory and food and feed industry.
The first speaker is Mrs. Claire Milligan, Marketing Operations Manager, R-Biopharm Rhone Ltd with title “Immunoaffinity Column for Mycotoxins and Vitamins Analysis”. She mentioned that there are three (3) important areas covered in legislation, which are maximum residue limits, sampling plans and analytical method criteria. R-Biopharm has 12 products for the analysis of aflatoxins in conjunction with HPLC and LC-MS/MS. In the Q&A section, Mrs. Claire explain that for spices commodities, it is better to use immunoaffinity column as clean-up because spices are a difficult matrix that has many interfering compounds that can affect the chromatogram. She also explains about the effective clean-up for vitamin B using Easi-Extract MULTI-VIT B (LGE) that can be used for folic acid, biotin, and vitamin B12.
The second speaker is Mrs. Nadira, Sr. Support Specialist & Marketing, PT Arasains with title “Alternative Method for Screening Mycotoxins & Vitamins”. In her presentation, she mentioned that there are 2 alternative methods for screening in mycotoxins testing, which are lateral flow and ELISA method. Both covered all mycotoxins parameter from aflatoxin, ochratoxin, zearalenone, fumonisin, T-2 and DON. Whereas for vitamin analysis, she also explained that R-Biopharm has microbiological testing method that use 96 microtiter plate wells which can be used for customers that has big sample volume.
