Claim · model-written summary
Deoxynivalenol concentration did not differ between organic and conventional wheat.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivumt0 - Treatment
- organice7
- Outcome
- DON concentratione7
- Direction
- no significant differencee7
- Comparator
- conventionale7
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Verbatim
t0“UK organic and conventional wheat”
e7“There was no significant difference in the DON concentration of organic and conventional samples”
Title
Fusariummycotoxin content of UK organic and conventional wheat
S.G. Edwards Food Additives & Contaminants Part A 2009. doi:10.1080/02652030802530679
Other claims from this paper (10)
- Observation Eight of the eleven mycotoxins analysed in UK wheat were detected.
- Observation Only five Fusarium toxins (deoxynivalenol, 15-acetyl-DON, nivalenol, HT-2 and zearalenone) were detected above 100 µg/kg in UK wheat.
- Observation Deoxynivalenol was the most frequently detected Fusarium mycotoxin, above the limit of quantification in 86% of samples.
- Observation Deoxynivalenol was usually present at the highest concentration among the mycotoxins in UK wheat.
- Observation The percentage of samples exceeding the recently introduced legal limits varied between 0.4% and 11.3% over 2001-2005.
- Observation DON and zearalenone concentrations were well correlated in UK wheat.
- Association Year and region had a significant effect on all mycotoxins analysed in UK wheat.
- Intervention effect Zearalenone concentration did not differ between organic and conventional wheat.
- Intervention effect Organic wheat had significantly lower HT2 and T2 toxin concentrations than conventional wheat.
- Observation The risk of UK wheat exceeding the newly introduced legal limits for Fusarium mycotoxins is low.