Review of quantitative allergen methods

Tuesday, 07 July 2009 22:40

Researchers from the University of Liège, Belgium, have recently published a review of quantitative methods for the detection of food allergens. The following is an excerpt from the publication’s abstract: Progress in mass spectrometry greatly opened up the field of proteomics. These advances are now available for the detection and the quantification of traces of allergenic proteins in complex mixtures, and complete the set of biological tests used until now, such as ELISA or PCR. We review methods classified according to their ability to simultaneously quantify and identify allergenic proteins and underline major advances in the mass-spectrometric methods.

Reference: Kirsch et al. 2009. Anal Bioanal Chem. Jun 19. [Epub ahead of print]