Aflatoxins can occur in foods such as groundnuts, tree nuts, maize, rice, figs and other dried foods, spices, crude vegetable oils and cocoa beans, as a result of fungal contamination before and after harvest.
What foods are high in aflatoxin?
The foods and crops most likely to be contaminated with aflatoxin include:peanuts.corn.milk and cheese (rarely, meat can also become contaminated due to the spreading in aflatoxin in livestock feed)nuts (especially almonds, Brazil nuts, pecans, pistachios and walnuts)grains including quinoa (8)soybeans.figs.
Which food items are prone to aflatoxin contamination?
Commodities such as corn, peanuts, pistachio, Brazil nuts, copra, and coconut are highly prone to contamination by aflatoxin (Idris et al., 2010; Cornea et al., 2011), whereas wheat, oats, millet, barley, rice, cassava, soybeans, beans, pulses, and sorghum are usually resistant to aflatoxin contamination.
Which nuts have the most aflatoxin?
Generally, peanuts top the list of aflatoxin contamination. One kilogram of peanuts should contain only 4 ppb (4 mcg/kg) of total aflatoxin and 2 ppb of aflatoxin B1.
How do I lower my aflatoxin?
Harvesting corn early when moisture is above 20% and then quickly drying it to a moisture level of at least 15% will keep the Aspergillus fungus from completing its life cycle, resulting in lower aflatoxin concentrations.
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