Improved yield of aflatoxin by incremental increases of temperature.

  • 1 June 1973
    • journal article
    • Vol. 25  (6) , 1018-9
Abstract
Increasing the initial temperature of the rice fermentation of Aspergillus parasiticus NRRL 2999 from 15 to 21 C after 24 h of incubation and then to 28 C after 48 h resulted in about a fourfold increase in total aflatoxin over the usual fermentation which is held constant at 28 C for 6 days. The percentage of aflatoxin B(1), the most toxic component, in the total aflatoxin was also increased.

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