Symmetric B1 ES and Symmetric Total ES can have two different extractions. One will be 70% methanol and the second is ‘green’ as it involves water and a specific buffer. The coefficient variant (CV) ...

EFSA has launched a public comment period on risks to public health from aflatoxins in food. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) concluded ...

Mycotoxins have been on the news during the last couple of years, but it was the aflatoxins’ case (a sub-group of mycotoxins) which drew the public’s attention. Highly toxic chemical compounds, ...

Rice—white, fluffy, pure, nutritious—can nevertheless carry fungal poisons called aflatoxins. Two years ago, Je Won Park and his colleagues reported that “rice is the major contributor to the dietary ...

The United States has limited controls to manage aflatoxin contamination in peanuts for export to Europe, according to findings from an audit carried out because of regular detection of ...

Employees winnow dried maize in a farm. Maize is considered one of the best hosts of the aflatoxin-causing fungi and hence stored maize can accumulate toxins such as aflatoxin when not dried properly.

Aflatoxin is a toxin produced by fungi and these fungi grow well under hot and humid conditions in decaying vegetables in soil Aflatoxins were isolated and characterized in the 1960s after the spread ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract A method for culturing and cloning a cell line derived from rat hepatic tissue is described. The cloned cells in culture were diploid, ...

Maize was first introduced in Uganda in 1861 and by 1900 it had become a major crop, grown for both commercial and home consumption needs. Hundreds of years later, the cereal is one of the major ...

Edible vegetable oils are an important component of the Sri Lankan diet. They are widely used to frying or temper during cooking or used in food processing industries. Coconut oil is the most widely ...