Indirect competitive ELISA based on monoclonal antibody for the detection of 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furfural in milk, compared with HPLC

In this study, a method for rapid detection of 5-hydroxymethyl-2-furfural (HMF) was investigated. Monoclonal antibody (anti-HMF) was prepared and evaluated by an indirect competitive ELISA (ic-ELISA) format. The optimized standard curve was y = -0.2097 x + 1.0432 [where x is the logarithm (base 10) of the values of the HMF concentration and y is the absorbance of ic-ELISA results tested at 490 nm] and the linear detection range was 0.008 to 32.768 mg/L. The percentage of cross-reactivity of HMF with 5 major furfural derivatives was less than 2.92%. Finally, the established ic-ELISA format was used to test HMF in milk, and compared with the result obtained by HPLC, which produced an error of about 0.3%. Based on the data in this experiment, we concluded that the established ic-ELISA format was reliable with a high specificity.