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Article Dans Une Revue Food additives & contaminants. Part A. Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment Année : 2010

Study on ochratoxin A contamination of coffee batches in the Kenyan context, in relation to cultivation methods and post harvest processing treatments

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This study set out to assess the relative importance of sound beans and unsound beans in a batch of coffee with regard to ochratoxin A (OTA) contamination. In first stage, unsound beans were found to account for 95% of contamination in a batch of coffee, whatever the methods used for post-harvest processing. It was also found that beans displaying traces of attacks by Colletotrichum kahawae were the greatest contributors to OTA contamination. In a second stage, the study compared the contamination of sound beans with that of beans attacked by Colletotrichum kahawae. On average, beans attacked by Colletotrichum kahawae had a statistically higher OTA content than sound beans (18.0 μg.kg-1 as opposed to 1.2 μg.kg-1). In addition, the average OTA content in unsound beans varied depending on growing conditions and geographical zones.

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hal-00593895 , version 1 (18-05-2011)

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Noël Durand. Study on ochratoxin A contamination of coffee batches in the Kenyan context, in relation to cultivation methods and post harvest processing treatments. Food additives & contaminants. Part A. Chemistry, analysis, control, exposure & risk assessment, 2010, 27 (06), pp.836-841. ⟨10.1080/19440040903571770⟩. ⟨hal-00593895⟩
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