Raymond Coker

Mycotoxins are a problematic and toxic group of small organic molecules that are produced as secondary metabolites by several fungal species that colonise crops. They lead to contamination at both the field and postharvest stages of food production

Incremental samples (50, 100, and 500 g) were systematically collected from large shipments of copra meal pellets, copra cake, and palm kernel cake to study the distribution of aflatoxin B1 and evaluate adherence of distribution to the model, CV(2)is…

1 1. EXPLANATION The Expert Committee was requested by the Codex Committee on Food Additives and Contaminants at its Thirty-second Session (Codex Alimentarius, 2000) to ‘examine exposure to aflatoxin M1 and to conduct a quantitative risk assessment’…