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Biotech / Medical : neog - Neogen's E.Coli Test adopted by Japan

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To: Kramer who wrote ()	10/18/1998 4:31:00 AM
From: Kramer	Read Replies (1) of 441

USDA Farm Service Agency requires aflatoxin testing on loan corn Producers across the Southern United States are being required to perform aflatoxin tests on corn that is being used as collateral for a non-recourse marketing assistance loans the Farm Service Agency (FSA) branch of the USDA is prohibited from making these loans on commodities known to contain aflatoxin in excess of 20ppb, the FDA action level. Presumably because of high aflatoxin levels this year, the testing instructions were mandated in all of Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and 179 counties in Texas. Similar instructions may be issued to other areas of the country including Missouri and Kansas. Under the rules, aflatoxin testing is required in the above states for corn stored in farm bins that is being pledged as collateral for marketing assistance loans. For warehouse stored loans, the responsibility lies with the warehouse operator to determine if tests should be run. U.K. takes hard line on mycotoxin levels On the basis of a report in The Public Ledger, Pacific Fruit News (Vol. 176 #5741) states that trading standards officers in the U.K. seized consignment contaminated with aflatoxin from store shelves. As a result, the British Government is investigating the trade of groundnuts, and is developing legislation to implement a EC (European Commission) directive on aflatoxin. The EC proposals stipulate a limit of 4ppb total aflatoxin and no more than 2ppb aflatoxin B1 which are stricter than the current U.K. regulations. The intent in Europe is to reduce the level of mycotoxins in addition to aflatoxin, they are looking at ochratoxin as well.

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