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QUIMICA NOVA
Volume 33, Issue 1, Pages 43-47Publisher
SOC BRASILEIRA QUIMICA
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-40422010000100009
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aflatoxin B1; photometric procedure; TLC-CCD
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A photometric procedure was developed for determination of aflatoxin B 1 in peanuts by TLC-CCD technique. The quantification and detection limit were 1.2 mu g kg(-1) and 0.4 ng per spot, respectively, with mean recovery of 98%. The CCD camera is sufficiently sensitive to detect small changes in spots fluorescence intensity and the results for performance confirmed the efficiency of the method. Another important property of CCD detector is its linearity for a wide range of luminous stimulus determined by analysis of five-point calibration curves using the intensity of AFB1 fluorescence versus AFB1 concentration (0.8 to 4.8 ng per spot). The method was applied to the analysis of thirty nine peanut samples and aflatoxin B-1 levels ranged from 16 to 115 mu g kg(-1). The TLC-CCD and the photometric procedure developed in this study demonstrated to be a simple and efficient tool for quantitative analyses of AFB1 in peanut samples.
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