Immunoaffinity column clean-up techniques in food analysis: A review

This review provides a critical assessment of the applications of immunoaffinity columns for sample clean-up in the field of food safety The performance of immunoaffinity columns are compared in terms of specificity, binding capacity and recovery. and commercial disposable columns are contrasted with home-made columns Areas covered include multiple-use of columns, multiple-analyte columns, use with,usewIth automated systems anti validation of IAC methods Publications illustrating the many varied applications of IAC for sample clean-up in the areas of mycotoxins, veterinary drug residues, pesticide residues, environmental contaminants and vitamins have beet) compiled. comparing extraction methods, achievable recovery, and illustrating the variety of end-detection methods that have been employed (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.