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In front of the regulatory evolutions setting maximum levels of mycotoxins and the need for the professionals to check the batches of cereals and cereal products, IRTAC (Institut de recherche technologique agro-alimentaire des céréales) joined together, in the form of a working group, the representatives of the network cereals in order to produce a "user guide of immunoenzymatic kits", also called "fast methods" or "Elisa kits". This guide aims at facilitating and at securing the application of these methods of evaluation of the contents of mycotoxins by all the operators in particular the producers. Today kits Elisa allow to obtain fast quantitative results. Nevertheless, some care of use must be respected. Leaving the report shared by the suppliers and the users of " kits Elisa " that the available specification sheets are be lacking in precisions to guarantee the reliability of the obtained results, this guide brings to the users the essential elements allowing them to obtain results more trusted and reproducible.
The user guide details the orders on the various stages of their setting, from the preparation of the sample to the validation of the results, by way of the realization of the analysis it - even. It also draws the attention of the users on the influence on the result of the effects of matrix and the non-uniform specificity of the different kits (cross reactions which can often explain under-estimates or or over-estimates). In margin of every stage, critical points are identified on which the users have to bring a quite particular attention to guarantee the reliability of the results, notably concerning:
- the domain of application of the kit (contamination and matrix);
- the good laboratories practices for the realization of the analysis (metrology of devices, used packaging
);
- the fundamental parameters such as the granulometry of the sample, the quality of the water, the pH of the washing solution, the temperature of the reagents, time of agitation and reaction;
- the critical stages as the extraction, the washing.
This guide thus emphasizes a precise use of kits Elisa to avoid hasty and erroneous performances while specifying the framework of their applications which remains the screening of the batches (allotement, checks during the storage, checks before expedition
).
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