“…IAC has been successfully used for the clean-up of various analytes, including mycotoxins, veterinary drugs, pesticides, vitamins and heavy metals, in a large range of different matrices (Abe et al, 2011;Chuang, Van Emon, Jones, Durnford, & Lordo, 2007;Heudi, Kilinç, Fontannaz, & Marley, 2006;Holtzapple, Buckley, & Stanker, 2001;Meletis, Meniades-Meimaroglou, & Markaki, 2007;Wang & Shen, 2007). A preliminary preparation of a chitosan-based immunoaffinity adsorbent using epichlorohydrin as a cross-linking reagent has been described in an earlier work of ours (Wang, Xu, Zhang, Wang, & Dong, 2011). However, the prepared immunoaffinity adsorbent was inadequate in size uniformity of the chitosan bead and stability to repeated use.…”