







Zearalenone is produced by natural fusarium, and the product of reduction of which is zeranol. Zeranol is a female hormone, which maintains secondary sexual characteristics and protein assimilation effect. It can be used for growth promotion of animals besides therapy, especially in cattle.
A simple and efficient extraction and purification procedure for Zeranols was developed by means of the immunoaffinity column (IAC-ZER) as a cleanup tool.Zeranols content in Feeds, Aquatic Products and Animal Derived Food are cleaned up by IAC and determined by HPLC or LC/MS/MS.