Protecting peanuts from aflatoxins.(The Beat)

From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: December 1, 2004| Author: Dooley, Erin E. | Copyright information

The U.S. Agricultural Research Service has received EPA approval for the first biological pesticide to protect peanut crops against toxic Aspergillus mold strains that produce aflatoxins. Consumption of grains and nuts contaminated with aflatoxins has been linked with liver cancer and hepatitis B in humans. Afla-Guard, as the new treatment is known, is made from a nontoxigenic strain of A....

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