Use of Sunlight to Partially Detoxify Groundnut (Peanut) Cake Flour and Casein Contaminated with Aflatoxin B1

1 March 1981

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of AOAC INTERNATIONAL

Vol. 64 (2) , 291-293
https://doi.org/10.1093/jaoac/64.2.291

Abstract

Sunlight destroyed 83 and 50% of the toxin added to casein and groundnut cake flour, respectively. Equilibrium dialysis revealed that both casein and groundnut protein bind aflatoxin but the toxin bound to casein appeared more photo-labile than that bound to groundnut protein.

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