Reduction of aflatoxin hazards using ammoniation.
PARK, D.L. and PRICE, W.D.
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicllogy 171: 139 – 175.
2001
บทคัดย่อ
This review with 110 references provides: a legal history of aflatosins and current FDA action levels; information of the levels of aflatoxins in domestic surveillance samples of feed during fiscal years 1989-1998; efficacy of the ammoniation process for reducing aflatoxin levels in contaminated feedstuffs; benefits and limitations shown in animal feeding studies; effect of ammonia on the aflatoxin molecule and the formation of reaction products; relative toxic/mutagenic potentials and safety of aflatoxin and its reaction products in ammoniated aflatoxin contaminated feeds, and; and estimate of the action level for aflatoxin, including ammoniation reaction products in ammoniated aflatoxin contaminated feeds and specifications for ammoniation of aflatoxin contaminated feeds.