AACCI Approved Methods Technical Committee Report: Collaborative Study on the Immunochemical Determination of Intact Gluten Using an R5 Sandwich ELISA

Abstract

In 2008, the AACC International Protein Technical Committee (now the Protein and Enzymes Technical Committee) initiated a collaborative study of a method for determining gluten in selected foods using an R5 antibody sandwich ELISA system. The method has been approved as AACCI Approved Method 38-50.01. The new method has been validated for testing foods to determine that they conform to the newly defined Codex threshold of 20 mg of gluten/kg in total for gluten-free products.