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| Prado,Guilherme; Altoé,Aline F.; Gomes,Tatiana C. B.; Leal,Alexandre S.; Morais,Vanessa A. D.; Oliveira,Marize S.; Ferreira,Marli B.; Gomes,Mateus B.; Paschoal,Fabiano N.; Souza,Rafael von S.; Silva,Daniela A.; Madeira,Jovita E. G. Cruz. |
| The media claims for the consumption of natural resource-based food have gradually increased in both developing and developed countries. The interest in the safety of these products is partially due to the possible presence of toxigenic fungi acting as mycotoxin producers, such as aflatoxins produced during the secondary metabolism of Aspergillus flavus, A. parasiticus and A. nomius. Aflatoxins, mainly aflatoxin B1, are directly associated with liver cancer in human beings. This paper is aimed at evaluating the presence of aflatoxin B1 in a few vegetable drugs, dried plant extracts and industrialized products traded in 2010 in the city of Belo Horizonte, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The method used for the quantification of aflatoxin B1 was based on... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Medicinal plants; Fungi; Mycotoxin; High-performance liquid chromatography; HPLC. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822012000400026 |
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