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Crystalline Aflatoxin M1 from Urine and Milk

Nature volume 215, pages 753–755 (1967)Cite this article

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Allcroft and Carnaghan1 and de Iongh et al.2 reported the appearance in milk of a compound related to aflatoxin B1, and Allcroft et al.3 showed by thin-layer chromatography and ultra-violet studies that a similar factor appeared in the urine of sheep given mixed aflatoxins. Holzapfel et al.4 isolated the urinary compound and established that it was aflatoxin M1 (Fig. 1).

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    M. S. MASRI, R. E. LUNDIN, J. R. PAGE & V. C. GARCIA

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MASRI, M., LUNDIN, R., PAGE, J. et al. Crystalline Aflatoxin M1 from Urine and Milk. Nature 215, 753–755 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215753a0

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