Surveillance of fumonisins in UK maize-based foods and other cereals

摘要

A survey has been carried out to determine the levels of fumonisins in a variety of maize-based foods and cereals available in the UK. The fate of fumonisins during commercial processing of maize was also assessed at each stage of the process. Fumonisins were not detected in samples of barley, wheat, soya, oats, rice, corn syrup or oil, corn-on-the-cob, corn-fed chicken or wheat flour tortilla. Despite detectable fumonisin con- tamination in samples of the original maize, fumonisins were not detected in samples of the food products obtained from commercial maize processing.