relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/2988/
title: Aflatoxin contamination of groundnuts in Mozambique
creator: Wyk, P S van
creator: Merwe, P J A Van der
creator: Subrahmanyam, P
creator: Boughton, D
subject: Groundnut
description: The incidence of fungal infection and levels of aflatoxin contamination (produced by Aspergillus flavus) were studied in groundnuts collected from farmers at lifting and after drying/curing, and from traders in Nampula, Mozambique, during 1997-98. Of 34 samples collected at lifting, 13 were contaminated with aflatoxins and 8 had aflatoxin levels >30 µg/kg. Of 30 samples collected after drying, 10 had aflatoxins and 4 had >30 µg/kg. Of 10 samples collected from traders, only 2 had aflatoxin contamination. Aflatoxin G1 was predominant in samples collected at lifting and aflatoxin B1 in samples collected from traders.
publisher: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
date: 1999
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/2988/1/IAN_19_25-27_1999.pdf
identifier:   Wyk, P S van and Merwe, P J A Van der and Subrahmanyam, P and Boughton, D  (1999) Aflatoxin contamination of groundnuts in Mozambique.  International Arachis Newsletter, 19.  pp. 25-27.  ISSN 1010-5824