The present work adapted and evaluated a trichothecenes determination, DON and the T-2 toxin and conduted a survey of the product commercialized in Rio Grande do Sul in beer commercialized in Rio Grande do Sul State by gas chromatography. It studied extraction, purification, derivatization and chromatographic conditions using artificially contaminated samples. Acetonitrile, methylene chloride and methanol pure or in misture were tested for the extraction step. The extract was purified using a carbon:alumina:celite minicolumn (7:5:3). For derivatization, the following conditions were tested: the basicity of the medium (sodioum bicarbonate, pyridine),the derivatizing agent (TFAA and HFBI), reaction time (30 and 60 minutes) and temperature (60 and 80°C). The chromatographic conditions were optimized in a gas chromatograph, with a split/splitless injector and an ionization flame detector. The highest recovery was obtained when liquid-liquid partition was carried out with methylene chloride, followed by cleaning in a minicolumn and derivatization with TFAA and pyridine at a temperature of 60°C for 60 minutes. The average recovery for DON and the T-2 toxin were 83 and 103%, the coefficient variation 1.6 to 4% and the detection limit of 21 and 60ng/mL, respectively. The applicability of the method was tested in a survey carried out in 72 beer samples, 9.7 % of which were contaminated 5.3% with DON (50 to 336ng/mL) and 4.5% with the T-2 toxin (114 to 249ng/mL).
trichothecenes; beer; deoxynivalenol; T-2 toxin; gas chromatographic
