Sentences with phrase «quantity of aflatoxins»

Others have also pointed to other controversial food products like hormone treated beef, GM foods and countries whose regulations allow 20 times the quantity of aflatoxins compared to the stricter regime imposed by the EU.

Even small quantities of aflatoxin can ruin a large harvest, and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has strict guidelines in place that limit the amount allowed in food to a mere 20 micrograms per kilogram, or 20 parts per billion (ppb).

I suspect that the optimal (but not necessarily intermediate) amount of protein would be whatever most protected against the formation of pre-cancerous lesions to begin with, but that even this amount would be powerless to protect against the artificial induction of such lesions by colossal quantities of aflatoxin.