Aflatoxin Testing
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Making use of the training he received through the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab, Ethiopian graduate student Abdi Hassen recently taught the aflatoxin detection technique he learned in the U.S. to supervisors and colleagues in his home country.
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PMIL Lead Scientist Kumar Mallikarjunan is one of three main authors on a publication in the April 23rd 2015 edition of the Journal of Food Analytical Methods, “Characterization of Invasion of Genus Aspergillus on Peanut Seeds Using FTIR-PAS.” Other authors are Dr. Hande Kaya-Celiker, a post-doctoral associate in the current PMIL project at Virginia Tech…
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Not long after aflatoxin was discovered and methods were developed for analyzing commodities for contamination levels, researchers and the industry quickly realized there was a problem. “I would get a call from the industry explaining that they had tested the same lot three times and gotten 0, 0 and 100 parts per billion (ppb). What’s…
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