Re: Re: 11/04 CDC acknowledges aflatoxins are known cause of liver cancer.

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Dear Barb,

The answer is yes.

You may remember that in Arkansas they have had over the years quite a but of

poisoned food from moldy peanuts and soybeans that was improperly processed.

Here's what I find in my dictionary:

Any of a group of related pentacyclic lactones produced by the moulds

Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus and highly toxic to most animals, causing

cancer and liver damage; any closely related synthetic compound.

1962 Toxicity assoc. Groundnuts (Agric. Res. Council Interdepartmental Working

Party) 2 Aspergillus flavus..was shown to produce the toxic factor when grown on

sterile, non-toxic nuts. In view of its origin, the toxic factor was given the

name 'aflatoxin'. 1978 G.

GREENE<http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-g2.html#g-greene> Human Factor

III i. 102 Peanuts when they go bad produce a mould... The mould produces a

group of highly toxic substances known collectively as aflatoxin. 1980

McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 93/1 Foods are monitored routinely for

aflatoxins.

Regards,

Ken Gibala

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[] Re: 11/04 CDC acknowledges aflatoxins are known cause

of liver cancer.

Is Aflatoxins toxins from aspergillus??

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> This is from the NIOSH, CDC site. The second link, which is table

3.2,

> lists aflatoxins as a known carcinogenic of the liver.

>

> _Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 112, Number 15, November

2004_

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(http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/cgi-bin/findtoc.pl)<http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/cgi-bin/f\

indtoc.pl)>

> Review Article

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