Claim · model-written summary
Gentler handling reduced potential aflatoxin contamination in storage.
- Taxon
- peanuts
Arachis hypogaeae1 - Treatment
- more gentle handlinge1
- Outcome
- potential for aflatoxin contamination during storagee0
- Direction
- reducede0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.
Verbatim
e0“Thus, the potential for aflatoxin contamination during storage was reduced.”
e1“more gentle handling of the peanuts”
Title
Handling Farmer Stock Peanuts at Warehouses with Potato Equipment1
P. D. Blankenship; M. C. Lamb Peanut Science 1996. doi:10.3146/i0095-3679-23-1-4
Other claims from this paper (7)
- Intervention effect Potato handling caused less mechanical damage than conventional handling.
- Intervention effect Potato handling improved peanut value.
- Intervention effect Gentler handling reduced loose shelled kernels by 1.83%.
- Intervention effect Gentler handling reduced sound splits by 4.00%.
- Observation Investment costs of the two handling systems were similar.
- Association Potato equipment could raise annual net peanut value by $23,758 for a new 3629-t warehouse.
- Recommendation Converting an existing warehouse to potato handling was judged economically infeasible.