A review on aflatoxins determination methods in China 's national and industry standards

Aflatoxins were widely found in nature,wich could contaminate many kinds of agriculture products and food,causing serious harm to the health of humans. Now,absolutely effective strategies do not have been developed for avoiding aflatoxins contamination. Therefore,establishing regulations and standards designed to standardize aflatoxins detection and strengthen supervision were considered to be very important. Till Jan.2015,there were totally twenty-one national and industry standards for aflatoxins existing in our country,consisting eleven standards that were issued and entered into force between 2010 and 2015. This review dealt with seven determination methods applied in standards. High performance liquid chromatography was now widely used as an authoritative quantitative confirmatory method,and High Performance Liquid Chromatography was a simple qualitative method for fast screening detection. Based on these,the current status in development and revision of the standards were further discussed. Meanwhile,the trends of technologies for aflatoxins determination were proposed.