Determination of aflatoxin M1 levels in goat milk consumed in Kilis province

Abstract

Summary:Aflatoxin M 1 (AFM 1 ) may occur in milk and dairy products, resulting from the ingestion of feedstuffs contaminated with aflatoxin B 1 (AFB 1 ) by dairy goats. The aim of this study was to determine the levels of AFM 1 in goat milk commonly consumed in the city of Kilis. One hundred and ten samples of milk were collected randomly from individual farms in Kilis from March 2006 to April 2006, Turkey, samples were analysed for AFM 1 by ELISA. AFM 1 was not determined in 17 samples (15.46%), whereas 93 samples (84.54%) were found to contain AFM 1 at various levels. In 70 of the 110 samples, the presence of AFM 1 was detected in a concentration ranging between 5.16 and 116.78 ng/l. AFM 1 levels in 7 (6.36%) of 110 goat milk samples were found to be higher than the maximum tolerable limit (50 ng/l) accepted by the Turkish Food Codex. We concluded that AFM 1 was determined in 84.54% of the goat milk samples consumed by the people in the Kilis province. Moreover 6.36% of samples contained AFM 1 at hazardous levels for human health.

Determination of Aflatoxin M1 Levels in Some Honamli Goat Herds in Burdur Province

“…However, this excretion differs in each animal (nutrition, milking time, etc.). AFM1, a metabolite of AFB1, which has cytotoxic and genotoxic properties in animals, is an extremely important toxin (Martins and Martins, 2000;Özdemir, 2007). Burdur city is one of the provinces where Honamli goat breeding is done intensively.…”