Abstract
Wheat for feed use (84 samples) was collected after harvest from 79 farms in a southwestern part of Germany (Baden-Wuerttemberg). The 1987 crop year was characterized by heavy rainfall in the summer months. The internal mycoflora of wheat samples was primarily fusaria, and storage fungi were rarely present. TheFusarium toxins, zearalenone (ZON), α- and β-zearalenol (α,β-ZOL), deoxynivalenol (DON), 3-acetyldeoxynivalenol (3-AcDON), nivalenol (NIV), T-2 Toxin (T-2), HT-2 toxin (HT-2) and diacetoxyscirpenol (DAS) were analysed by gas chromatography with mass selective detection (detection limit: 1–3 µg/kg). Each of the samples contained at least one of theFusarium toxins examined except DAS. DON, ZON, 3-AcDON, NIV, T-2, HT-2 and α-ZOL were detected in 96%, 80%, 59%, 26%, 26%, 7% and 5% of samples, with an average of 1632, 178, 7, 9, 82, 10 and 23 µg/kg, and a maximum of 20538, 8036, 18, 32, 249, 20 and 71 µg/kg, respectively. β-ZOL (12 µg/kg) was found in one sample with α-ZOL (71 µg/kg). One, two, three, four, five and sixFusarium toxins were detected in 6%, 27%, 37%, 23%, 4%, and 4% of total samples, respectively. The most frequent combination was that of ZON with DON and 3-AcDON, followed by the combinations ZON/DON and ZON/DON/3-AcDON/NIV in 22, 20, and 11% of total samples, respectively.
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Abbreviations
- 3-AcDON:
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3-Acetyldeoxynivalenol
- DAS:
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Diacetoxyscirpenol
- DON:
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Deoxynivalenol
- HT-2:
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HT-2 toxin
- NIV:
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Nivalenol
- T-2:
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T-2 toxin
- α-ZOL:
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α-Zearalenol
- β-ZOL:
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β-Zearalenol
- ZON:
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Zearalenone
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Müller, HM., Schwadorf, K. A survey of the natural occurrence ofFusarium toxins in wheat grown ina southwestern area of Germany. Mycopathologia 121, 115–121 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01103579
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