Abstract
A competitive, direct, chemiluminescent enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (CL-ELISA) for chloramphenicol (CAP) residues in milk, milk powder, honey, eggs and chicken muscle has been developed. The method gave a detection limit of 0.7 ng L−1 and a linear range of 2.1–92.4 ng L−1, with the IC50 of 13.6 ng L−1 under optimal conditions, dramatically better than any previously reported ELISA method for CAP detection. Spiked at levels of 5–60 ng L−1 in different food samples, recoveries were in the range of 72.1–116.0%, with coefficient of variations of 4.2–20.2%. In a study of incurred residues, the chicken muscle samples diluted 5-, 10- and 20-fold, results obtained by CL-ELISA correlated well with those obtained by gas chromatography with microcell electron capture detector and traditional ELISA. The developed CL-ELISA method is, therefore, suitable for rapid screening trace CAP residues in food samples.
Acknowledgements
This study was supported by Beijing Science and Technology Research Project (D101105046110004) and Technology Pillar Program in the Twentieth Five-Year Plan Period (2011BAZ0319816).