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| Domain | Definition |
Agriculture | Aflatoxin is a naturally occurring mycotoxin produced by two types of mold: aspergillus flavus and aspergillus parasiticus. Aspergillus flavus is common and widespread in nature and is most often found when certain grains are grown under stressful conditions such as drought. Favorable conditions for mold growth include high moisture content and high temperature. At least 13 different types of aflatoxin are produced in nature with aflatoxin B1 considered as the most toxic. While the presence of Aspergillus flavus does not always indicate harmful levels of aflatoxin it does mean that the potential for aflatoxin production is present. The Food and Drug Administration has established action levels for aflatoxin present in food or feed to protect human and animal health. The FDA will consider action if aflatoxin levels exceed: 20 ppb for corn and other grains intended for immature animals (including immature poultry) and for dairy animals, or when its destination is not known; 20 ppb for animal feeds, other than corn or cottonseed meal; 100 ppb for corn and other grains intended for breeding beef cattle, breeding swine, or mature poultry; 200 ppb for corn and other grains intended for finishing swine of 100 pounds or greater; 300 ppb for corn and other grains intended for finishing (i.e., feedlot) beef cattle and for cottonseed meal intended for beef cattle, swine or poultry. All corn exported from the United States is required to be tested for aflatoxin. Aflatoxin testing services are available nationwide, upon request and for a fee using several different types of test kits approved by GIPSA. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Aflatoxins are naturally occurring mycotoxins that acts as carcinogens and are produced by two types of mold, Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus. Aflatoxins are carcinogenic to both rodents and humans.
Aspergillus flavus is common and widespread in nature and is most often found when peanuts and certain grains are grown under stressful conditions such as drought. The mold occurs in soil, decaying vegetation, hay, and grains undergoing microbiological deterioration and invades all types of organic substrates whenever and wherever the conditions are favorable for its growth. Favorable conditions include high moisture content and high temperature. At least 13 different types of aflatoxin are produced in nature with aflatoxin B1 considered as the most toxic. While the presence of Aspergillus flavus does not always indicate harmful levels of aflatoxin it does mean that the potential for aflatoxin production is present.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Aflatoxin."
Crosswords: AFLATOXIN |
| Specialty definitions using "AFLATOXIN": Aflatoxin B1, Aflatoxin M1, Aflatoxins, Aspergillus flavus ♦ Mycotoxins. (references) |
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Economic History | Greece | The GOG applies EU standards for aflatoxin levels in tree nuts, samples imported nuts for testing, and requires public health certificates citing the aflatoxin content. (references) |
Trade | Greece | Imported nuts are subject to an aflatoxin test performed by the Supreme Chemical Laboratory. (references) |
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| "AFLATOXIN" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "AFLATOXIN" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "AFLATOXIN": Aflatoxin B1 ♦ Aflatoxin M1. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aflatoxin | 67 |
aflatoxin structure | 11 |
aflatoxin price | 10 |
aflatoxin b1 | 3 |
aflatoxin crop in problem spice | 2 |
aflatoxin mycotoxins shrimp | 2 |
aflatoxin corn | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "AFLATOXIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | aflatoksin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aflatoxine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | aflatoxine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Aflatoxin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Italian | aflatossina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | アフタ性口内炎 (Afrikaans, stomatitis aphthosa). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | アフラトキシン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aflatoxinay aflatoxina. (various references) aflatoxina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "AFLATOXIN": aflatoxins. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "AFLATOXIN" (pronounced a'flutÄ"ksun) |
| 6 | -t Ä" k s u n | antitoxin, toxin. |
| 5 | -Ä" k s u n | dioxin, oxen. |
| 4 | -k s u n | claxon. |
| 3 | -s u n | angiotensin, arson, assassin, basin, bison, bolson, businessperson, capsaicin, chairperson, chasten, christen, comparison, congressperson, damson, delicatessen, diocesan, Dobson, ensign, fasten, garrison, Gibson, glisten, hasten, Hyson, jettison, keelson, kelson, layperson, lessen, lesson, listen, loosen, Mason, medicine, moisten, myosin, Nelson, newsperson, oxytocin, parson, person, rechristen, rhodopsin, salesperson, spokesperson, unison, venison, washbasin, weatherperson, worsen. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-i-l-n-o-t-x" | |
-1 letter: laxation. | |
-2 letters: alation, fantail, foxtail, tailfan. | |
-3 letters: afloat, anoxia, atonal, axonal, fontal, latino, oxtail, talion. | |
-4 letters: alant, aloft, aloin, axial, axion, faint, fatal, final, flint, float, flota, folia, lanai, liana, natal, notal, tafia, talon, taxon, tolan, tonal, toxin. | |
-5 letters: alan, alfa, alif, alit, alto, anal, anil, anoa, anta, anti, axal, axil, axon, fail, fain, falx. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-f-i-l-n-o-t-x" | |
+1 letter: aflatoxins. | |
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