Mycotoxin Reference Materials

Mycotoxins is a broad term for hundreds of toxic secondary metabolites of moulds, including Aspergillus, Fusarium, and Penicillium, that can develop in key food crops like cereals, coffee, fruits, juices, nuts, oilseeds, spices, and cannabis.

Once a crop is infected, mycotoxins can survive food processing like milling, boiling, roasting and juicing – and when moving through international food chains can pose a worldwide threat to humans, livestock, and pets. This has led over 100 countries to establish regulatory limits for 13 of the most impactful and prevalent toxins. However, climate change is also creating more of the warm, humid conditions mycotoxins thrive in – and shaking up agricultural conditions in ways we do not yet understand in major agricultural regions like the US.

To support rapid mycotoxin testing, screening, and quantitation, we provide a wide range of mycotoxin reference materials for foods and beverages. These are available in convenient mixes, individual solutions, or as neat materials, as well as in typical matrices and labelled formats.

Our portfolio of nearly 400 mycotoxin testing products includes regulated aflatoxins - such as citrinin, deoxynivalenol, diacetoxyscirpenol (DAS), ergot alkaloids, fumonisins, patulin, sterigmatocystin (STG), and trichothecenes. We also cover a wider range of compounds whose presence and levels are increasingly attracting scientific and regulatory interest, as well as emerging mycotoxins as further metabolites whose health effects are also being studied.

Our AXIO range of mycotoxin proficiency testing schemes also supports your analysis of at least 13 different mycotoxins in more than 11 matrices - including spices, nuts, cereals, vegetable oil, and milk products.