Article
Anti-aflatoxin mutagenic factors in corn.
Food additives and contaminants - 1 Apr 1997
Weng C Y, Martinez A J, Park D L
Abstract excerpt
Extracts, isolated through sequential fractionation and partition procedures described previously (Martinez et al. 1994) from aflatoxin-free corn and aflatoxin-contaminated corn with and without ammonia treatment, were investigated for mutagenic potential using the Ames test (TA 100 tester strain). 2-Aminofluorene (2-AF) and pure aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) were used as positive controls. Although TA100 showed mutagenic...
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