Hindawi Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry Volume 2019, Article ID 2159097, 13 pages https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/2159097 Research Article Advantageous Extraction, Cleanup, and UHPLC-MS/MS Detection of Patulin Mycotoxin in Dietary Supplements and Herbal Blends Containing Hawberry from Crataegus spp. Anna Przybylska ,1 Grzegorz Bazylak ,1 Robert Kosicki,2 Iwona Altyn ,2 Magdalena Twaruzek ,2 Jan Grajewski ,2 and Anna Soltys-Lelek3 1Department of Pharmaco-Bromatology and Molecular Nutrition, Faculty of Pharmacy, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Jagiellonska 13, PL-85067 Bydgoszcz, Poland 2Department of Physiology and Toxicology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Kazimierz Wielki University, Chodkiewicza 30, PL-85064 Bydgoszcz, Poland 3Ojcow National Park, Ojcow 9, PL-32045 Suloszowa, Poland Correspondence should be addressed to Grzegorz Bazylak;
[email protected] Received 14 October 2018; Revised 21 December 2018; Accepted 13 January 2019; Published 6 February 2019 Academic Editor: Nu´ria Fontanals Copyright © 2019 Anna Przybylska et al. /is is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Patulin (PAT) is a highly genotoxic mycotoxin still found as the common contaminant of various kinds of spoiled fruits and related commodities which are often endorsed as the health-enhancing products. /us, a fast and convenient liquid-solid extraction followed by a solid-phase cleanup with the MycoSep 228 AflaPat multifunctional column was used for the highly efficient isolation of PAT with an average recovery of 112.7% from® commercial dietary supplements and herbal blends formulated with dried hawberry.