Aflatoxin B1 contamination in sunflower oil collected from sunflower oil refinery situated in Karnataka

Narasimhan Banu, JohnPaul Muthumary

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DOI: 10.4236/health.2010.28145                

Abstract

In the present study, the aflatoxin B1 contamination at various stages of oil refining and in refined oil were carried out. This was subsequently compared with commercial vegetable oil samples. Among the 23 different sunflower oil samples were tested, 10 of them showed posi-tive results to AFB1 and the remaining 13 showed negative results to AFB1. All the refined oil samples were free from AFB1 contamination.

Keywords

Aflatoxin B1; Refined Oil; Raw Oil; Filtered Oil; Sunflower Oil; Edible Oil

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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