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DURING recent years the toxicity of groundnut ingredients in feed rations has presented a general problem. It was soon discovered that the toxic effect is due to aflatoxins, produced by certain strains of Aspergillus flavus growing on groundnuts1. Up to now, however, research workers have failed to establish a practicable method for the elimination of the toxicity of infected groundnut batches. Therefore, methods enabling the demonstration of aflatoxin are of great importance partly for the identification of infected batches and partly for the determination of the non-toxic ratio of groundnut ingredient in the feed.
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JUHÁSZ, S., GRÉCZI, E. Extracts of Mould-infected Groundnut Samples in Tissue Culture. Nature 203, 861–862 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/203861a0
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