What foods contain aflatoxin?
Aflatoxin is widely distributed and may be present in any food contaminated with aflatoxin. Aflatoxin often contaminates cereals and oils and their products, such as rice, wheat, oats, corn, peanuts,…
Category: Aflatoxin poisoning
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Is aflatoxin carcinogenic?
Aflatoxin is one of the most carcinogenic chemicals known and was classified as a Group 1 carcinogen by the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Agency for Research on Cancer in 1993.…
What is aflatoxicosis?
Aflatoxin is mainly a toxic substance produced by Aspergillus flavus, Penicillium, Aspergillus niger and Aspergillus winters can also be produced, the disease caused by the toxin is named aflatoxicosis.As early…