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Samples of wheat flour, bread, noodles, rice, corn and corn based foods as well as oats and oats based foods of conventional and organical production were analysed for trichothecene toxins. In wheat flour, bread and noodels the median deoxynivalenol (DON) contents were lower in ecological than in conventional products with significant differences for what flour and bread. To estimate toxin uptake of the consumer a corrected mean of DON concentration was calculated, which was lower in wheat flour and bread for ecological than for conventional products. In noodles the corrected mean of organical products was higher than that of conventional ones.
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Schollenberger, M., Müller, H.M. & Drochner, W. Deoxynivalenol contents in foodstuffs of organical and conventional production. Mycotox Res 19, 39–42 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02940090
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