Abdul Mohammad Aziz¹ and Mohammad Dawod Shirzad²*

¹Faculty of Chemistry, Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan
²Faculty of Environment, Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan

*Corresponding Author: Mohammad Dawod Shirzad, Faculty of Environment, Kabul University, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Received: March 11, 2024; Published: April 25, 2024

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to determine the amount of aflatoxins of raisins and pistachios in order to prepare as acceptable materials exported to other countries of the world. The amount of aflatoxins acceptable to the world is characterized by these substances. It is also included in a table in this article. In this table the food items are described in accordance with the international norms of the world countries.
Similarly, the amount of aflatoxins has been technically measured in them. Also, the amount of aflatoxins allowed in fruits and foods is provided in a table as a whole. In this research paper, aflatoxins in 17 pistachio samples and 20 samples of red raisins have been obtained.
The export of national traders from Kabul customs has been under investigation of aflatoxins quantity and their quantitative results are stabilized and in a table of insertion and dependence of their samples with the amount of aflatoxins they have been explained by graphs and in tables and finally in a syntactic export to the world countries has been revealed.

Keywords: Aflatoxins; Mycotoxins; Carcinogenic; Mutagenic; Aspergillus parasiticus; Aspergillus flavus

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Citation

Citation: Abdul Mohammad Aziz and Mohammad Dawod Shirzad. “Quantification of Aflatoxins in Exported Raisin and Pistachio of Afghanistan".Acta Scientific Microbiology 7.5 (2024): 27-34.

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