Analysis of zearalenone and <i>α</i>‐zearalenol in 100 foods and medicinal plants determined by <scp>HPLC‐FLD</scp> and positive confirmation by <scp>LC‐MS‐MS</scp>

Abstract

The results suggest that it is necessary to control ZON contamination in medicinal plants, especially Semen coicis. This is a successful study on the analysis of ZON and α-ZOL in medicinal plants in China by HPLC-FLD. Immunoaffinity clean-up and HPLC-FLD proved to have broad applicability in the field of simultaneously detecting ZON and α-ZOL in foods and medicinal plants and other complicated matrices.