Rainbow latex microspheres lateral flow immunoassay with smartphone-based device for simultaneous detection of three mycotoxins in cereals.

The coexistent pollution of multiple mycotoxins displays a synergistic toxicity effect that significantly threatens human health. Therefore, it is essential to establish a rapid detection method for multi-mycotoxins in food. In this study, red, green, and blue latex microspheres (LMs) were applied as the aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), T-2 toxins (T-2), and zearalenone (ZEN) antibodies labeled tracer, respectively. Based on the principle of spatial resolution, a rainbow "traffic light" pattern latex microspheres lateral flow immunoassay (LMs-LFIA) integrated with a portable and user-friendly smartphone-based device was first developed to detect three kinds of mycotoxins simultaneously. The cut-off values of the method for AFB1/T-2/ZEN in cereals were 1/15/40 μg kg-1, the limits of detection were 0.04/0.40/1.21 μg kg-1, respectively. The recoveries ranged from 82.1% to 107.5%, with the coefficient of variation from 3.0% to 8.1%. A parallel analysis in 26 naturally contaminated cereal samples was confirmed by commercial ELISA kits; the results showed a good correlation (R2＞0.99), indicating the practical reliability of the rainbow LMs-LFIA. This method provided a visually enjoyable, portable, and sensitive detection mode for multi-target detection of mycotoxins or other small molecule hazard factors in food. Copyright © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Citation

Jiayi Chen, Pengjie Luo, Zhiwei Liu, Zixian He, Yimeng Pang, Hongtao Lei, Zhenlin Xu, Hong Wang, Xiangmei Li. Rainbow latex microspheres lateral flow immunoassay with smartphone-based device for simultaneous detection of three mycotoxins in cereals. Analytica chimica acta. 2022 Aug 15;1221:340138

Mesh Tags

Substances

PMID: 35934370

search → result