This European Standard specifies a method for the determination of deoxynivalenol (DON) in cereals (grain and flour), cereal based foods and cereal based foods for infants and young children by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with immunoaffinity cleanup and UV detection. This method has been validated in three interlaboratory studies. The first study was for the analysis of samples of wheat, rice flour, oat flour, maize, polenta, and wheat based breakfast cereal ranging from 85,4 μg/kg to 1 768 μg/kg, the second study was for wheat and maize ranging from 165 μg/kg to 4 700 μg/kg and the third study was for cereal based foods for infants and young children ranging from 58 μg/kg to 452 μg/kg.

For further information on the validation, see Clause 9 and Annex B.

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