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Mycotoxins in foods. Occurrence, health and economic significance and food control measures.

VASANTHI, S. and BHAT, R.V.

Indian Journal of Medical Research 108 : 212-224.

1998

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Mycotoxins in foods. Occurrence, health and economic significance and food control measures.

The Indian Council for Medical Research multicentric study on the occurrence of aflatoxin contamination in risk commodities namely, maize and groundnut, showed that 21% of groundnut  samples and 26%  of maize samples analysed exceeded Indian tolerance limits of     30 mg/kg. A study on the aflatoxin intake from maize-based diets in a rural region of Andhra Pradesh showed the intakes to be in the range of 4-100 ng/kg body weight/day. Fumonisins have been shown to occur in Indian maize and sorghum. Approaches for prevention and control of mycotoxin contamination in foods have shown that methods involving the segregation of contaminated or mouldy grains by hand picking and density segregation resulted in a reduction of 70-90%  of aflatoxin and fumonisin present in the grains. While agreement between international regulatory limits in needed, the requirments of food producing countries must also be recognised and realistic but not idealistic safe limits need to be proposed.