EUROLAB laboratory provides testing and compliance services within the scope of EN 17203 standard. This standard describes a procedure for determining the content of citrine in foods (cereals, red yeast rice (RYR)), herbs, and food supplements by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS-MS).
This method has been validated for citrine in the range of 2,5 μg/kg to 3 μg/kg in red yeast rice and formulated food supplements, and 000 μg/kg to 2,5 μg in wheat flour.
Laboratory experience has shown that this method also applies to herbs such as white rice, ginkgo biloba leaf powder, and food supplements formulated in the range of 2,5 μg/kg to 50 μg/kg.
Mycotoxin citrinin, Penicillium (eg P. citrinum), Aspergillus (eg A. candidus) and Monascus. Citrine is mainly found in stored grains such as rice, corn, wheat, barley, oats and rye. Citrine can be found as a contaminant in Monascus purpureus and formulated dietary supplements and red fermented rice.
EUROLAB assists manufacturers with EN 17203 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.
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