Interlaboratory collaboration to determine the performance of the Randox food diagnostics biochip array technology for the simultaneous quantitative detection of seven mycotoxins in feed

An inter-laboratory collaborative study was performed to evaluate the performance of the Biochip Array Technology (BAT) Myco 7 method. The Myco 7 Array is a method which simultaneously and quantitatively detects 20 mycotoxins including aflatoxins B-1, B-2, G(1) and G(2), ochratoxin A, deoxynivalenol, zearalenone, fumonisin B-1, B-2 and B-3 and T-2 and HT-2 toxin. The BAT Myco 7 method was collaboratively evaluated by nine government and private Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) laboratories. Samples were analysed in a proficiency testing round format. Seventeen blind samples were analysed on the same equipment using Myco 7 kits. 99% of the results fell within an acceptable Z-score range of -2 vertical bar

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An inter-laboratory collaborative study was conducted to evaluate the performance of the BAT Myco 7 method, which utilizes Biochip Array Technology to simultaneously and quantitatively detect 20 mycotoxins. The study involved nine AAFCO laboratories and demonstrated the reliable and accurate performance of the Myco 7 method.