BS EN 16923:2017 PDF

What is BS EN 16923 -LC-D etermination of T-2 toxin and HT-2 toxin in cereals and cereal products about?

BS EN 16923 discusses the determination of T-2 toxin and HT-2 toxin in cereals and cereal products for infants and young children. BS EN 16923 is a European standard that provides the LC-MS/MS method for the determination of T-2 toxin and HT-2 toxin in cereals and cereal products for infants and young children to ensure they are safe for consumption. BS EN 16923 describes a method for the determination of T-2 toxin and HT-2 toxin in cereals and cereal-based products e.g., oats, intended for the nutrition of infants and young children by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS) after clean-up by solid-phase extraction (SPE). The method under  BS EN 16923 can also be applied to cereals and cereal products for infants and young children based on e.g., wheat, barley, and rice. In this case, the method needs to be in-house validated for each material. At the time of the interlaboratory study, the planned range was 10 microgram/kg to 100 microgram /kg, and it is known from the pre-study that the method works well in the entire range, although final validation was only done in the range from 3,5 microgram /kg to 28,1 microgram /kg.