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JOURNAL OF STORED PRODUCTS RESEARCH
Volume 38, Issue 1, Pages 75-86Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-474X(01)00006-6
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immunoassay; insect infestation in wheat; X-ray; cracking and flotation; insect fragment test
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In collaboration with the United States Department of Agriculture and a number of major milling companies, the Insect-Detect immunoassay for analyzing insect contamination in grains has been compared with three more traditional methods, X-ray analysis, cracking and flotation, and the insect fragment test (IFT). Testing was carried out in blind fashion using clean wheat samples that were spiked with differing numbers of grain kernels infested with late instar larvae of the granary weevil (Sitophilus granarius (L.)). Three different laboratories analyzed the samples for each of the four methods. The collaborative trials showed that the insect immunoassay clearly provided the most accurate measurement of actual insect infestation, followed by X-ray analysis. While both cracking and flotation and IFT procedures provided a general measure of contamination, they showed much greater variability. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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