บทคัดย่องานวิจัย

Reduction of aflatoxin hazards using ammoniation.

PARK, D.L. and PRICE, W.D.

Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicllogy 171: 139 – 175.

2001

บทคัดย่อ

Reduction of aflatoxin hazards using ammoniation.

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.