Incidence and level of aflatoxin contamination in chilli commercialised in Turkey

Food Control

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 514-520

  Golge, Ozgur ^a   Hepsag, Fatma ^a   Kabak, Bulent ^b  

^a Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock General Directorate of Food and Control Food Control Laboratory   (Turkey)

^b HITIT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aflatoxins; Chilli; HPLC FD; Occurrence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877013428     PISSN: 09567135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2013.03.048     Document Type: Article

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