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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
agricultural and biological sciences
Human dietary exposure to fumonisin B
1
from Iranian maize harvested during 1998-2000
Mycopathologia, Volume 161, No. 6, Year 2006
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Fumonisin B1 (FB1) is the most abundant of the fumonisin mycotoxins, mainly produced in maize by F. verticillioides and F. proliferatum. A previous study on the FB1 contamination of maize harvested in Mazandaran and Isfahan Provinces of Iran in 1998 and 1999 demonstrated contamination in both provinces. This present study was undertaken to further investigate the variation in levels of contamination and to estimate possible levels of human exposure to fumonisins in Iran. The mean level of FB1 in 49 visually healthy maize samples collected from Mazandaran Province during 2000 was 6.14 mg/kg, which is higher than that found during 1998 and 1999 (2.27 and 3.18 mg/kg, respectively). Although these levels are higher than the Iranian legislative limits for fumonisins in maize intended for humans, the relatively low estimated consumption of maize in Iran (3.3 g/person/day) implies that average exposures (0.011 and 0.215 μg/kg body weight/day in Isfahan and Mazandaran, respectively) are within the provisional maximum tolerable daily intake of 2 μg/kg body weight/day set by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives. Nevertheless, certain sections of the population who may consume higher amounts of maize or who may replace all or some of their consumption of other cereals with maize, could well exceed this limit. © Springer 2006.
Authors & Co-Authors
Yazdanpanah, Hassan
Iran, Tehran
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Shephard, Gordon Seymour
South Africa, Tygerberg
South African Medical Research Council
Marasas, W. F. O.
South Africa, Tygerberg
South African Medical Research Council
van der Westhuizen, Liana
South Africa, Tygerberg
South African Medical Research Council
Rahimian, Heshmatollah
Iran, Babolsar
University of Mazandaran
Safavi, S. N.
Iran, Tehran
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Eskandari, P.
Iran, Tehran
Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Ghiasian, Seyed Amir
Iran, Hamadan
Faculty of Medicine
Statistics
Citations: 64
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 4
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1007/s11046-006-0017-x
ISSN:
0301486X
Research Areas
Food Security
Study Design
Cross Sectional Study