What is the best method of detecting and quantifying Fumonisins?

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Basri Cakiroglu

What is Fumonisins?

Still What about you asked Fumonisins ,if that explaind I reply you as soon as

Mahmoud Hassan

The quick and accurate way to detect and quantify fuminisin in animal feeds is by using ELISA assay. Veratox is a competitive direct ELISA kit from NEOGEN to quantify fuminisin in animal feeds. or product details see the link below:

http://www.neogen.com/FoodSafety/FS_Product_List.asp?Test_Kit_Cat=200c

John Nduko

Thank you Mahmoud Hassan for your link. It was very useful