“…The method was applied to milk and mozzarella cheese and the ratios of the b-lactoglobulin (b-LG) variants A and B and of b-LG A and the so-called Bx peak which is only present in buffalo's milk were used for quantitative evaluation. In several studies mass spectrometry (MS) was used to assess the presence or absence of cow's milk in buffalo's milk (Angeletti, Gioacchini, Seraglia, Piro, & Traldi, 1998;Casetta, Bonner, Shushan, & Fior, 1992;Cozzolino, Passalacqua, Salemi, & Garozzo, 2002;Cozzolino et al, 2001) and mozzarella (Angeletti et al, 1998;Cozzolino et al, 2002) based on the characteristic molecular masses of a casein (Casetta et al, 1992), the protein X (Angeletti et al, 1998) and alactalbumin (Cozzolino et al, 2001(Cozzolino et al, , 2002. With one exception (Casetta et al, 1992), where electrospray ionisation was used, all MS investigations employed matrix assisted laser desorption/ionisation.…”