TY  - JOUR
N2  - 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.
AV  - public
A1  - Wyk, P S van
A1  - Merwe, P J A Van der
A1  - Subrahmanyam, P
A1  - Boughton, D
TI  - Aflatoxin contamination of groundnuts in Mozambique
UR  - http://oar.icrisat.org/2988/
JF  - International Arachis Newsletter
SP  - 25
Y1  - 1999///
ID  - icrisat2988
EP  - 27
SN  - 1010-5824
VL  - 19
PB  - International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
ER  -