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To determine how commercial and pilot milling processes distribute Fusarium mycotoxins across different wheat fractions and evaluate factors influencing toxin transfer into flour.

July 19, 2011Food Additives & Contaminants Part AOpen Access

Distribution ofFusariummycotoxins in UK wheat mill fractions

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SESimon EdwardsHarper Adams University EDEdward DickinHarper Adams University SMSusan MacDonaldFera Science (United Kingdom)

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Experimental milling study reveals variable Fusarium mycotoxin fractionation across wheat milling products, suggesting pre-harvest weather affects flour contamination risks.

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To determine how commercial and pilot milling processes distribute Fusarium mycotoxins across different wheat fractions and evaluate factors influencing toxin transfer into flour.
Sampled wheat from commercial UK flour mills at multiple processing stages between 2004 and 2007 for trichothecene and zearalenone quantification.
Processed grain samples from 2004 and 2005 harvests exhibiting varied toxin concentrations using a pilot mill to assess fraction-specific partitioning.
Deoxynivalenol was the predominant mycotoxin across commercial samples, with the highest concentrations occurring in the outer bran fraction.
Pilot mill analysis demonstrated that deoxynivalenol and nivalenol partitioned significantly more into flour fractions and less into bran in 2004 compared to 2005, coinciding with high pre-harvest rainfall.
Increasing grain concentration of deoxynivalenol yielded a higher proportion of toxin in flour fractions, whereas zearalenone distribution did not differ significantly between harvest years.

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Edwards et al. (2011) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9b1777efdbcdb1c5a7a28c https://doi.org/10.1080/19440049.2011.605770

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Experimental milling study reveals variable Fusarium mycotoxin fractionation across wheat milling products, suggesting pre-harvest weather affects flour contamination risks.

Distribution ofFusariummycotoxins in UK wheat mill fractions

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Distribution ofFusariummycotoxins in UK wheat mill fractions

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