Filing Date: 2002-05-03.-- Priority Data:
ES (2001-05-14)P- (2001-01-09)
The invention relates to a method for extracting the gluten contained in a sample consisting in using an ethanol aqueous solution in the presence of a composition containing a disulphur group reducer and a decoupling agent, in a buffer having a pH of between 7 and 8. The inventive method can be used to extract quantitatively the gluten contained in a heat-processed or non-heat-processed food sample before the quantification of the gluten by ELISA. Said method is suitable for food analyses, in particular, for foodstuffs intended for coeliac sufferers.
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