Abstract
Bright greenish-yellow fluorescence under long wave ultraviolet light was observed on the shells of 7% of the nuts in samples from 46 aflatoxin contaminated commercial lots of Iranian pistachio nuts. Kernels from the fluorescent nuts contained 50% of the aflatoxin in the samples. No aflatoxin was found in any of the shells. When kernels and shells were cultured, toxicogenic fungi grew from only 4% of the shells and 21% of the kernels from fluorescent nuts and from 9% of the shells and 15% of the kernels from nonfluorescent nuts.
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Dickens, J.W., Welty, R.E. Fluorescence in pistachio nuts contaminated with aflatoxin. J Am Oil Chem Soc 52, 448–450 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02637486
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02637486