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Studies on Mycoflora and Aflatoxin in regular and Decaffeinated Black TeaH. A. H. Hasan, M. A. Abdel-SaterFrom Botany Department, Faculty of Science, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.The mycofloral analysis of twenty different kinds of black tea powder (commonly used in Egypt) indicated that, all these samples have wide range of mould species and counts. A thirty two species and 2 varieties belonging to 9 genera were collected on 1% glucose- (7 genera and 20 species) and 40% sucrose- (7 and 23+2 varieties) Czapek's agar at 28°C. The most prevalent mould on one or two substrates were members of Aspergillus, Penicillum, Cladosporium and Eurotium. The most polluted tea, in total count, were Tayseer, Blue Tea Pot and El-Balabel. The lowest contaminated tea were Khan El-Khallily, Yaquot and El-Arosa. H. A. H. Hasan, M. A. Abdel-Sater. Studies on Mycoflora and Aflatoxin in regular and Decaffeinated Black Tea. . 1993; 6(2): 124-130 Sorumlu Yazar: H. A. H. Hasan, Egypt |
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