Mycotoxins in home-made red pepper powders in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Tsegaye Bunaro1, Abebe Ayelign1, Paulos Getachew1
1Center for Food Science and Nutrition, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Abstract:
Red pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) is nutritionally important and economically valuable in Ethiopia. As it is highly vulnerable, mycotoxin contamination was evaluated in 124 household-produced red pepper powders. Also knowledge and practices among these households were evaluated. Samples were collected at the time of processing and pooled into 40 composite samples, which were split into two 100-gram portions of which one was analysed immediately and the other stored at room temperature for six months. Twenty-six mycotoxins were determined using a validated UHPLC-MS/MS method, of which ten were detected both at production and after storage, with levels ranging from
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