Multimycotoxin and fungal analysis of maize grains from south and southwestern Ethiopia. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Getachew, Alemayehu; Chala, Alemayehu; Hofgaard, Ingerd Skow; Brurberg, May Bente; Sulyok, Michael; Tronsmo, Anne-Marte
• Is Part Of: Food additives & contaminants. Volume 11:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 64
• Page End: 74
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Grain contamination -- toxigenic fungi -- mycotoxin -- liquid chromatography; Food additives -- Periodicals; Food contamination -- Periodicals; 664.07
• DOI: 10.1080/19393210.2017.1408698
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1939-3210

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The natural occurrence of fungi, mycotoxins and fungal metabolites was investigated in 100 samples of maize grains collected from south and southwestern Ethiopia in 2015. The maize samples were contaminated by Fusarium, Aspergillus and Penicillium species. Using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry 127 secondary metabolites were analysed. Zearalenone was the most prevalent mycotoxin, occurring in about 96% of the samples. Zearalenone sulfate was the second most prevalent, present in 81% of the samples. Fumonisin B1 was detected in 70% of the samples with a mean level of 606 μg kg −1 in positive samples, while FB2, FB3 and FB4 were detected in 62%, 51% and 60% of the maize samples with mean levels of 202, 136 and 85 μg kg −1, respectively. Up to 8% of the samples were contaminated with aflatoxins, with a maximum level of aflatoxin B1 of 513 μg kg −1 . Results were higher than earlier reports for maize from Ethiopia.