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Detection of melamine using commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay technologyEric A E Garber
Division of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, US Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA
J Food Prot 71:590-4. 2008..The recovery of melamine spiked into gravy from dog food using UD was 74% +/- 4%. In conclusion, the recently released Abraxis ELISA for melamine proved to be a useful alternative to more cumbersome methods...
Rapid detection of ricin in cosmetics and elimination of artifacts associated with wheat lectinJacqueline Dayan-Kenigsberg
Unité Biotechnologie, Biochimie des Protéines et Macromolécules, agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé, 143 boulevard Anatole France, 93285 Saint Denis Cedex, France
J Immunol Methods 336:251-4. 2008..5% non-fat milk powder eliminated the occurrence of false positives. This substitution increased the LOD to 0.01 microg/mL ricin, which is an acceptable level for screening cosmetics for contamination by ricin...
Toxicity and detection of ricin and abrin in beveragesEric A E Garber
U S Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Regulatory Science, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA
J Food Prot 71:1875-83. 2008..Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays of the samples administered by i.p. injection indicated a decrease in detectable toxin at 0.5 microg/ml...
Simultaneous multiplex detection and confirmation of the proteinaceous toxins abrin, ricin, botulinum toxins, and Staphylococcus enterotoxins a, B, and C in foodEric A E Garber
Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA
J Agric Food Chem 58:6600-7. 2010..Paramagnetic microspheres facilitated the detection of analyte in foods containing particulate matter incompatible with the use of filter plates normally used in the wash steps of assays employing standard polystyrene microspheres...
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay detection of melamine in infant formula and wheat food productsEric A E Garber
Division of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U S Food and Drug Administration, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA
J Food Prot 73:701-7. 2010..5 microg/g, respectively. The ELISA kits provide an effective alternative for the analysis of samples suspected of containing melamine without relying on extensive sample preparation or expensive instrumentation...
Detection of hazelnuts and almonds using commercial ELISA test kitsEric A E Garber
Division of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, MD 20740, USA
Anal Bioanal Chem 396:1939-45. 2010..Also, insufficient knowledge regarding the epitope specificity of the antibodies used in the ELISAs further hinders interpretation of the results generated by the different test kits...
Detection of abrin in food using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and electrochemiluminescence technologiesEric A E Garber
U S Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Regulatory Science, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA
J Food Prot 71:1868-74. 2008..1 to 0.5 ng/ml in the analytical sample. In contrast, the LODs for the ELISAs ranged from 0.5 to 10 ng/ml in the analytical sample...
Detection of ricin in food using electrochemiluminescence-based technologyEric A E Garber
U S Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Division of Bioanalytical Chemistry, Office of Regulatory Science, 5100 Paint Branch Pkwy, College Park, MD 20740, USA
J AOAC Int 91:376-82. 2008..Thus, the ECL assay was uniquely suited for the screening of samples for ricin...
Feasibility of immunodiagnostic devices for the detection of ricin, amanitin, and T-2 toxin in foodEric A E Garber
Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Office of Plant and Dairy Foods, Division of Natural Products, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA
J Food Prot 68:1294-301. 2005..Competitive ELISAs, which typically have unacceptably high background reactions with food samples, successfully detected amanitin and T-2 toxin...
Application of deadenylase electrochemiluminescence assay for ricin to foods in a plate formatChung Y Cho
Office of Regulatory Science, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U S Food and Drug Administration, 5100 Paint Branch Parkway, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA
J Food Prot 72:903-6. 2009..Signal-to-noise ratios for the plate-based assay were comparable to those for the bead-based assay for ricin in citrate buffer, but 2- to 4.5-fold higher when the plate-based assay was used for analysis of juice samples...
Performance Tested Method multiple laboratory validation study of ELISA-based assays for the detection of peanuts in foodDouglas L Park
U S Food and Drug Administration, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Division of Natural Products, 5100 Paint Branch Pkwy, College Park, MD 20740, USA
J AOAC Int 88:156-60. 2005..When 2 test kits are run simultaneously on all samples, the probability becomes 95%. It is therefore recommended that all field samples be analyzed with at least 2 of the validated kits...
Identification of the RNA N-glycosidase activity of ricin in castor bean extracts by an electrochemiluminescence-based assayWilliam K Keener
U S Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
Anal Biochem 378:87-9. 2008..Concurrent testing with two substrates provides a diagnostic tool enabling castor bean toxins to be differentiated from a larger selection of N-glycosidase toxins than was previously examined...
