title: Mycoflora study in a wheat flour mill of Argentina.
abstract: wheat conditioning, milling and screening, and filling zone, as well as, raw material -wheat-, intermediate product -grits- and end product -flour- on day 1, and after cleaning improvements -days 45 and 90- were studied in an Argentine wheat mill. Samples were incubated at 28°C for 5-7 days on Malt Extract Agar with chloramphenicol (100 mg L(-1)) and the results were expressed in colony forming units per cubic meter of air (CFU m(-3)) or per gram of sample (CFU g(-1)), respectively. Fungal genera and species were isolated and identified and the potential toxicogenic capacity of the Aspergillus flavus and Fusarium graminearum isolated was studied. Time-Place and Time-Product multifactorial ANOVA were carried out. After cleaning improvements, CFU m(-3) of air decreased as a function of time. Cladosporium and Alternaria were abundant in every zone, Aspergillus predominated in the wheat conditioning zone and Penicillium and Eurotium decreased with time. Wheat was more contaminated than grits and flour; Aspergillus, Eurotium and Mucoraceae family were the most abundant. Deoxynivalenol was above the levels allowed in wheat, being acceptable in grits and flour. Aflatoxin and Zearalenone showed acceptable levels. When studied in vitro, 53% of Aspergillus flavus and 100% of Fusarium graminearum isolates, produced Total Aflatoxins, and Deoxynivalenol and Zearalenone, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Cátedra de Microbiología, Facultad de Ingeniería Química, Universidad Nacional del Litoral , Santiago del Estero 2829 (3000) Santa Fe , Argentina.
authors.forename: E E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Aringoli
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Cambiagno
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Chiericatti
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Basilico
authors.forename: M L Z
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Basilico
keywords: environment; mycoflora; wheat mill
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