PMID- 35777905 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220707 LR - 20220716 IS - 2090-1224 (Electronic) IS - 2090-1232 (Print) IS - 2090-1224 (Linking) VI - 39 DP - 2022 Jul TI - Rapid and sensitive UHPLC-MS/MS methods for dietary sample analysis of 43 mycotoxins in China total diet study. PG - 15-47 LID - S2090-1232(21)00204-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jare.2021.10.008 [doi] AB - INTRODUCTION: Mycotoxins are toxic metabolites produced by fungi that commonly contaminate foods. As recommended by the World Health Organization, total diet study (TDS) is the most efficient and effective way to estimate the dietary intakes of certain chemical substances for general populations. It requires sensitive and reliable analytical methods applicable to a wide range of complex food matrices and ready-to-eat dishes. OBJECTIVES: A novel strategy with high selectivity and sensitivity, incorporating three methods based on ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS), was designed for measuring 43 mycotoxins in dietary samples in a China TDS. METHODS: The 43 mycotoxins were divided into 3 groups for analysis to achieve better performance. For each group, an UHPLC-MS/MS method was developed to determine the target compounds after clean-up by solid phase extraction. A total of 21 isotope internal standards were employed for accurate quantitation. Method validation in terms of linearity, selectivity, sensitivity, accuracy, and precision was performed for all the 43 mycotoxins in 12 complex food matrices. RESULTS: The limits of detection (LODs) and limits of quantitation (LOQs) were 0.002-1 ng mL(-1) and 0.006-3 ng mL(-1), respectively. The method recoveries of the 43 mycotoxins spiked in 12 food categories were in the range of 60.3%-175.9% after internal standard correction, with relative standard deviations (RSDs) below 13.9%. For practical application, this method was utilized for 72 dietary samples collected from 6 provinces in the 6th China TDS. More than 80% of the samples were found contaminated by mycotoxins. DON, SMC, FB(1), ZEN, BEA, ENNB(1), and ENNB were most detected. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed methods with high sensitivity, accuracy, and robustness provide powerful tools for multi-mycotoxin monitoring and dietary exposure assessment, allowing 43 mycotoxins, including some emerging mycotoxins, to be accurately investigated in a total diet study for the first time. CI - Copyright (c) 2022. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. FAU - Qiu, Nannan AU - Qiu N AD - NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing 100021, PR China. FAU - Sun, Danlei AU - Sun D AD - NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing 100021, PR China. FAU - Zhou, Shuang AU - Zhou S AD - NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing 100021, PR China. Electronic address: szhoupku@gmail.com. FAU - Li, Jingguang AU - Li J AD - NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing 100021, PR China. FAU - Zhao, Yunfeng AU - Zhao Y AD - NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing 100021, PR China. Electronic address: zhaoyf@cfsa.net.cn. FAU - Wu, Yongning AU - Wu Y AD - NHC Key Laboratory of Food Safety Risk Assessment, China National Center for Food Safety Risk Assessment, Beijing 100021, PR China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20211019 PL - Egypt TA - J Adv Res JT - Journal of advanced research JID - 101546952 RN - 0 (Mycotoxins) SB - IM MH - Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/methods MH - Diet MH - *Mycotoxins/analysis/chemistry MH - Solid Phase Extraction MH - *Tandem Mass Spectrometry/methods PMC - PMC9264008 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Complex food matrices OT - Determination OT - Mycotoxins OT - Total diet study OT - UHPLC-MS/MS COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2022/07/02 06:00 MHDA- 2022/07/08 06:00 PMCR- 2021/10/19 CRDT- 2022/07/01 21:05 PHST- 2021/04/14 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/09/27 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/10/16 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/07/01 21:05 [entrez] PHST- 2022/07/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/07/08 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/10/19 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S2090-1232(21)00204-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jare.2021.10.008 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Adv Res. 2022 Jul;39:15-47. doi: 10.1016/j.jare.2021.10.008. Epub 2021 Oct 19.