Survey of fungal counts and natural occurrence of aflatoxins in Malaysian starch-based foods
ABDULLAH, N., NAWAWI, A. and OTHMAN, I.
Mycopathologia 143 : 53-58.
1998
บทคัดย่อ
Starch based foods sampled from retail outlets in Malaysia were surveyed for moulds and aflatoxins. Screening for aflatoxins was carried out on 84 samples of ordinary rice grains and 83 samples of wheat flour. Of the rice grain samples 2.4% were positive for AFG1 and 3.6% were positive for AFG2 at concentrations ranging from 3.69-77.50 mg/kg. All the positive samples were collected from private homes. Of the wheat flour samples 1.2% were positive for AFB1 (25.62mg/kg), 4.8% were positive for AFB2 (11.25-252.50 mg/kg), 3.6% were positive for AFG1 (25.00-289.98 mg/kg) and 13.25% were positive for AFG2 (16.25-436.25 mg/kg). Similarly, positive wheat flour samples were mostly collected from private homes.