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Study the pollution by mycoflora and aflatoxins of some of black tea kindes in Iraqi markets | ||
| Journal of Tikrit University For Agriculture Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 256-262 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study was aimed to investigate the fungal contamination and aflatoxins occurrence in Twenty two samples of some black tea types that collected from the local markets in Iraq. Results were indicated that found as contaminated by mycoflora, and isolated the A. niger as the most dominant in all the tea brands samples, and the other fungi species isolated were as A. flavus, A. parasiticus, A. ochraceus, Alternaria and penicillium. Bacteria speices were isolated an aerobic bacteria count, spor forming, coliform. However Salmonella and Staphyllococcus aurous were not detected. Aflatoxin were detected in 37 % of the samples with averages of 4.54 – 11.98 μg /kg of black tea. The highest concentration of aflatoxin B1 was production in Apple, Merd and AL-Qeethara tea samples and the lowest quantity was produced in Golden and AL-Sanabul tea | ||
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