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Using 12 lb samples, 280 g subsamples, the Waltking method of analysis, and densitometric procedures, the sampling, subsampling, and analytical variances associated with aflatoxin test procedures were estimated. Regression analysis indicated that each of the above variance components is a function of the concentration of aflatoxin in the population being tested. Results, for the test procedures given above, showed that sampling constitutes the greatest single source of error, followed by subsampling and analysis. Functional relationships are presented to determine the sampling, subsampling, and analytical variance for any size sample, subsample, and number of analyses.
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Journal paper 4014 of the North Carolina State University Agricultural Experiment Station, Raleigh, N.C.
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Whitaker, T.B., Dickens, J.W. & Monroe, R.J. Variability of aflatoxin test results. J Am Oil Chem Soc 51, 214–218 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02632897
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02632897