TY - GEN A1 - Kuner, Maximilian T1 - Measuring the sum – A novel screening method for ergot alkaloids in food N2 - Ergot alkaloids play a significant role in human history for more than 1000 years and are part of the most common contaminants of food and feed worldwide. Their high toxicity against humans and livestock even at low concentrations causes a high demand for quick and reliable analytics even though no European limits for ergot alkaloids have been determined yet. Currently the most common methods for the quantitation of the six major ergot alkaloids and their corresponding stereoisomers are HPLC based, using either fluorescence or mass spectrometric detection. Whereas these conventional detection methods measure each compound individually, a novel approach is to transfer all ergot alkaloids to one basic structure, which could be measured as a sum parameter. Since all ergots contain a lysergic acid amide moiety and a differing peptide component, cleaving the molecule into a simple lysergic acid derivative, which could be quantified via either HPLC-FLD or MS/MS, is intended. To clean up the cleavage reaction mixture molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) are a simple and effective way to separate the desired structure. Due to the selectivity of MIPs, an improved matrix separation is expected, which results in fewer interferences in the FLD and the possibility to measure samples with more complex matrices. When fully developed, the novel method could overcome some major drawbacks of the conventional detection methods. Higher throughput and the need for less well-trained personnel are just two advantages, that should lead to a quick and cheap quantitation of ergot alkaloids. First results of this project will be presented, funded by the German ZIM program (Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand) of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. T2 - WMFmeetsIUPAC 2019 CY - Belfast, UK DA - 14.10.2019 KW - Ergot KW - Mycotoxins KW - Molecularly imprinted polymers PY - 2019 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/49436 AN - OPUS4-49436 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany