Mycotoxins in infant/toddler foods and breakfast cereals in the US retail market |
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| Authors: | Kai Zhang Brenna M Flannery Carolyn J Oles Anthony Adeuya |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Regulatory Science, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA;2. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Analytics and Outreach, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA;3. Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Food Safety, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, MD, USA |
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| Abstract: | The objective of this study was to conduct a mycotoxin survey of commercial infant/toddler foods (cereals and teething biscuits) and breakfast cereals in the United States. A total of 215 retail samples were collected from three geographical locations and analysed for aflatoxins, fumonisins, deoxynivalenol, HT-2 toxin, ochratoxin A, T-2 toxin, and zearalenone using a stable isotope dilution liquid-chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method. One or more mycotoxins were found in 69% (101/147) of the infant/toddler foods and 50% (34/68) of breakfast cereals. Mycotoxin co-occurrence was observed in 12% of infant/toddler foods and 32% of breakfast cereals. However, the concentrations of detected mycotoxins were lower than the current FDA action and guidance levels. Aflatoxins and HT-2 toxin were not detected in any of the samples, while deoxynivalenol was the most frequently detected mycotoxin. Rice-based cereals appeared to be less susceptible to mycotoxin contamination than other cereal types. |
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| Keywords: | Mycotoxins breakfast cereals infant/toddler foods aflatoxins deoxynivalenol fumonisins ochratoxin A zearalenone LC-MS/MS |
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