P B12. ANALYSIS OF AFLATOXINS, OCHRATOXIN A
AND ZEARALENONE CONTENT IN CEREAL PRODUCTS

I. Milovanović, A. Mišan

Institute for Food Technology, Bulevar cara Lazara 1, Novi Sad, Serbia

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by fungi which contaminate a large variety of foods, with toxic effects on animals and humans. The best protection against mycotoxins is monitoring their presence in feeds and foods. The amounts of aflatoxins, ochratoxin A and zearalenone were determined in 20 samples of flour from different cereals available in local supermarkets, as part of a wider project which aim is to determine the health safety of various consumer products on the market. The results of these tests have shown that, out of twenty samples, the presence of mycotoxins was not determined only in three samples. In 11 samples presence of zearalenone was determined, out of which seven were corn samples. Mycotoxins were determined in all four tested buckwheat samples.

Keywords: mycotoxins, ELISA, food