In vitro and in vivo comparative studies on the efficacy of some aflatoxin-detoxifying agents

ABSTRACT

In vitro comparative efficacy studies on the addition of 3 different levels of each of aluminum oxide, antitox plus, charcoal, fix-a-tox and florisil as detoxifying agents to sorghum containing 46 ppm aflatoxin were carried out. The 0.1% level gave the most constant pattern with aflatoxin reductions of 42.8, 61.6, 36.9, 27.2 and 25.2% for the above agents, respectively. Raising the level to 0.5% of each agent resulted in reduction of 0.0, 77.8, 44.1, 1.8 and 40.5%. The highest tested level [1%] gave only reduction of 41.3, 30.2, 32.0, 18.2 and 18.3%