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Presence of aflatoxins in cereals from Serbia
- Source :
- Food and Feed Research, Vol 41, Iss 1, Pp 31-38 (2014)
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Institute for Food Technology, Novi Sad, 2014.
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Abstract
- Aflatoxins (AFs), one of the most toxic and the strongest natural carcinogens can be found in a variety of food commodities, including cereals. For that purpose, the aim of this study was to investigate occurrence of AFs (AFB1, AFG1, AFB2 and AFG2) in 130 cereal samples. AFs content was determined by direct competitive Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) method. Samples with AFs content higher than 1 μg/kg were analyzed again with confirmatory High Performance Liquid Chromatography with fluorescence detection (HPLC-FLD). Analyses showed that none of the analyzed wheat (30), barley (20), oats (20) and rye (20) samples was contaminated with AFs. On the other hand, among 40 analyzed maize samples 24 of them (60%) were contaminated in the following way: 6 (25%) samples had AFs concentration between 1 and 10 μg/kg, 14 (58%) samples between 10 and 50 μg/kg and 4 (17%) between 50 and 70.3 μg/kg. The most predominant aflatoxin was AFB1 which was detected in all contaminated maize samples. AFG1, AFB2 and AFG2 were found in 12, 5 and 1 sample, respectively. This study represents the first investigation of the occurrence of AFs in five different cereals from Serbia.
- Subjects :
- aflatoxins
cereals
ELISA
HPLC
Food processing and manufacture
TP368-456
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English, Serbian
- ISSN :
- 22175369 and 22175660
- Volume :
- 41
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Food and Feed Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.12768fe060be4ae9bb480ff7548212f3
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.5937/FFR1401031K