Manasikan Thammawong, Mayuko Okabe, Tomomi Kawasaki, Hiroyuki Nakagawa, Hitoshi Nagashima, Hiroshi Okadome, Takashi Nakajima, Masayo Kushiro
The fate of the Fusarium mycotoxins deoxynivalenol and nivalenol during the milling of Japanese wheat cultivars artificially infected with Fusarium was investigated. Grain samples with different mycotoxin concentrations were milled using a laboratory-scale test mill to produce eight fractions: three breaking flours (1B, 2B, and 3B), three reduction flours (1M, 2M, and 3M), wheat bran, and wheat shorts. Patent flour for human consumption was made from the 1B, 2B, 1M, and 2M flours, and low-grade flour was made from 3B and 3M flours...
October 2010: Journal of Food Protection