Beta
194467

Occurance of Aflatoxins (AFs) in Corn and Peanut in Damietta Governorate, Egypt

Article

Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Eighty random samples of corn and peanut that were purchased from different regions in Damietta Governorate (July 2010 to July 2011) were analyzed for aflatoxin (AFs) by HPLC and screened for the presence of fungi. Total count of fungi in corn ranged from 24 to 62 colony/g, the corn samples were found to be contaminated with six species of fungi belong to four genera; Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium  and Alternaria.  The Aspergillus group was the most prevalent fungi in all examined samples, within these species, A. niger, A. flavus, A. fumigatus, A. ochraceus and A. terreus, in addition to Fusarium equiseti species. On the other hand, peanut samples were contaminated with eleven  species belong to five genera, A. flavus, A. parasiticus, A. fumigatus, A. niger, A. ochraceus, A. terreus, Penicillium chrysogenum, Penicillium nigricans, Alternaria alternate , Mucor sp., and Chaetomium sp. The total fungal count ranged from 48 to 73 colony/g peanut sample.  AFs were detected in corn and peanut and its total concentrations ranged from 2.030 to 6.003±1.6 µg/kg and 4.23 to 5.69 µg/kg, respectively. This study concluded that the AFs level in the corn and peanut in the collected samples were below permissible levels.

DOI

10.21608/sjdfs.2015.194467

Keywords

Aflatoxins, HPLC, corn, Peanut, fungi

Authors

First Name

Amany

Last Name

Hasballah

MiddleName

F.

Affiliation

Environmental Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences, Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

M.

Last Name

Abou Donia

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Food Contaminants and Toxicology Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Talaat

Last Name

Hegazy

MiddleName

A.

Affiliation

Environmental Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences, Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

M.

Last Name

Ibrahim

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Environmental Sciences Department, Faculty of Sciences, Damietta University, Damietta, Egypt.

Email

mahmoudsalem1912@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

5

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

27634

Issue Date

2015-12-01

Receive Date

2021-09-14

Publish Date

2015-12-01

Page Start

73

Page End

81

Print ISSN

2314-8594

Online ISSN

2314-8616

Link

https://sjdfs.journals.ekb.eg/article_194467.html

Detail API

https://sjdfs.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=194467

Order

194,467

Type

Original articles

Type Code

2,045

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Scientific Journal for Damietta Faculty of Science

Publication Link

https://sjdfs.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Occurance of Aflatoxins (AFs) in Corn and Peanut in Damietta Governorate, Egypt

Details

Type

Article

Created At

23 Jan 2023