Claim · model-written summary
Irradiation at 4.0 kGy greatly reduced mold growth versus controls.
- Taxon
- maize, chick‐peas and groundnut
Arachis hypogaea
Cicer arietinum
Zea mayse1 - Treatment
- Irradiation at a dose 4.0 kGye0
- Outcome
- mold growthe0
- Direction
- reducede0
- Comparator
- unirradiated controlse0
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Verbatim
e0“Irradiation at a dose 4.0 kGy reduced the mold growth greatly relative to unirradiated controls”
e1“maize, chick‐peas and groundnut seeds”
Title
REDUCTION OF FUNGI AND MYCOTOXINS FORMATION IN SEEDS BY GAMMA‐RADIATION
NAGY H. AZIZ; LOUTFY A.A. MOUSSA; FERIAL M.E. FAR Journal of Food Safety 2004. doi:10.1111/j.1745-4565.2004.tb00379.x
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Market seed samples were heavily contaminated by molds.
- Intervention effect There was no mold growth at 5.0 kGy.
- Intervention effect Five kGy inhibited toxigenic molds and mycotoxin formation in seeds.
- Intervention effect Six kGy detoxified aflatoxin B 1 by 74.3–76.7%.
- Intervention effect Six kGy detoxified ochratoxin A by 51.3–96.2%.
- Intervention effect Six kGy detoxified zearalenone by about 78%.