General information:
Sulfonamides are widely used as feed additives, mainly for fattening of calves and pigs. Combined with inhibitors of dihydrofolate reductase such as trimethoprim, tetroxoprim, or pyrimethamine sulfonamides are also used in veterinary medicine for the treatment of intestinal infections, mastitis, pulmonitis and other (systemic) diseases. Therefore sulfonamide residues may occur in food of animal origin such as meat and milk and were found frequently abroad. According to the EU-Law a maximum residue limit for all substances of the sulfonamide-group of 100 µg/kg in muscle, fat, liver and kidney and of 100 µg/l in milk is valid.
Specifications
Art. No. | R3004 |
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Test format | Microtiter plate with 96 wells (12 strips with 8 removable wells each) |
Sample preparation | milk: after 1:5 dilution direct use in the assay meat (chicken and pork), egg, fish, shrimp: homogenization, extraction, centrifugation, evaporation and degreasing honey: extraction, RIDA® C18 column purification and dilution |
Incubation time | 1 h 15 min |
Detection limit | meat (chicken), egg: 1.5 µg/kg (ppb) meat (pork), fish, shrimp, honey: 2 µg/kg (ppb) milk: 3.5 µg/l (ppb) (corresponding to the standard substance) |
Cross reactivity | Sulfamethoxypyridazine: approx. 100 % Sulfapyridine: > 100 % Sulfamethoxydiazine: approx. 75 % Sulfamethoxazole: approx. 58 % Sulfadimethoxine: approx. 41 % Sulfaquinoxaline: approx. 34 % Sulfachloropyridazine: approx. 19 % Sulfamerazine: approx. 18 % Sulfadiazine: approx. 15 % Sulfamethizole: approx. 14 % Sulfadoxine: approx. 10 % Sulfachloropyrazine: approx. 9 % Sulfaguanidine: approx. 5 % Sulfaphenazole, Sulfamethazine, Sulfisoxazole, Sulfanilamide: approx. 2 % Sulfacetamide: approx. 1 % |