Zearalenone Chemical and Physical Properties

Zearalenone is a white apparent compound, which exhibits blue-green fluorescence if aflame by continued amicableness UV ablaze (360) and a added acute blooming fluorescence if aflame with abbreviate amicableness UV ablaze (260 nm). In methanol, UV assimilation maxima action at 236 (e =29,700), 274 (e =13,909) and 316 (e =6,020).

Maximum fluorescence in booze occurs with betterment at 314nm and with discharge at 450nm. Solubility in baptize is about 0.002g/100ml. It is hardly acrid in hexane and progressively added so in benzene, acetonitrile, methylene chloride, methanol, booze and acetone. It is aswell acrid in aqueous vinegar. In fungal cultures a amount of carefully accompanying metabolites are formed, but there is alone bound affirmation that these action in foodstuffs, although there is beginning affirmation for some manual of zearalenone and a - and b -zearalenols into the milk of sheep, beasts and pigs fed top concentrations.