“…Techniques to detect type A trichothecene structures have included chromatographic technologies such as gas chromatography (GC) (Valle-Algarra, Mateo, Mateo, Gimeno-Adelantado, & Jimenez, 2011), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) (Eskola & Rizzo, 2001), gas chromatography-triple quadrupole mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) (Jekel & Van Egmond, 2014;Nielsen & Thrane, 2000;Rodríguez-Carrasco, Berrada, Font, & Manes, 2012), liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) (Dall'Astaa et al, 2004;Fuchs, Rabus, Handl, & Binder, 2003;Nakagawa, Sakamoto, Sago, Kushiro, & Nagashima, 2013;Razzazi-Fazeli, Rabus, Cecon, & Bohm, 2002) and liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) (Tamura, Nakagawa, Uyama, & Mochizuki, 2014;Yang et al, 2013). Although these detection technologies characteristically have a high-flux and low detection limit, not all type A trichothecenes and their metabolites are recognized especially if the concentration of the parent compound is extremely low and the metabolites are unknown.…”