Furthermore, legislation calls for methods of control. Reliable analytical methods will
have to be available to make enforcement of the regulations possible. Tolerance levels
that do not have reasonable expectation of being met are wasteful in the resources that
they utilize, and they may well condemn products that are perfectly fit for consumption.
AOAC International and CEN (the European Standardization Committee) have a number
of standardized methods of analysis for mycotoxins available that have been validated in
formal inter-laboratory method validation studies