TY - JOUR AU - DHARMAPUTRA, OKKY SETYAWATI PY - 2024/01/11 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - REVIEW ON AFLATOXIN IN INDONESIAN FOOD- AND FEEDSTUFFS AND THEIR PRODUCTS JF - BIOTROPIA JA - BIOTROPIA VL - 0 IS - 19 SE - Research Paper DO - 10.11598/btb.2002.0.19.227 UR - https://journal.biotrop.org/index.php/biotropia/article/view/227 SP - AB -  Aflatoxin is a human carcinogen that  could contaminate food- and feedstuffs, and hence is a major food quality <br />problem throughout the world. Afiatoxin is produced by certain strains of AspergillusJlavus and //. parasiticus. A number of <br />studies have been carried out in Indonesia on atlatoxin contamination in Indonesian food- and feedstuffs and their products <br />from 1990 up to present. They were maize, maize product, peanuts, soybean and soybean meal, black and white pepper, feed <br />ingredients; chicken and duck feeds. Samples were collected from farmers, traders (middlemen), retailers (markets), <br />supermarkets, exporters; poultry and duck community-based farms; and feed mi l l  industries. High levels of aflatoxins were <br />often found in maize, peanuts, chicken feed derived from markets, and duck feed. Low levels of aflatoxins were found in <br />soybean meal and chicken feedstuff. Aflatoxins were not detected in soybean, black and white pepper. <br />Other studies have also been carried out on the effect of carbondioxide (CO2), phosphine, black pepper extract and <br />antagonistic fungi on aflatoxin production of  A. flavus in vitro\  and the effect of airtight storage, phosphine, <br />ammonium hydroxide, fermentation process, bag types, and phosphine in combination with different bag types on <br />atlatoxin contents of maize, peanuts and soybean meal. Some of these methods reduced aflatoxin contents significantly. <br />Keywords: Aspergillus flavus I Aflatoxin / Food-and feed stuffs / Product ER -