TABLE 2.

Ochratoxin A content of figs with colonies of Aspergillus and Penicillium^a

Yr	Ochratoxin A, μg/g (% of figs infected)
	A. alliaceusb	A. ochraceus group	Penicillium
1997	1.85 (0.1)	0.003 (0.1)	0 (0.6)
1998	— (0.0)	0 (0.1)	0 (0.5)
1999	0.81 (0.1)	0.005 (0.1)	0 (1.1)

^aTen orchards were sampled each year; a total of 100 figs per orchard were collected in 1997, and 200 per orchard in 1998 and 1999. The limit of detection of ochratoxin A was 1 ng/g. For A. alliaceus and A. ochraceus, all visibly infected figs from each orchard were pooled; for Penicillium, figs from all orchards were pooled for each year.

^bSome fig samples with A. alliaceus also had colonies of the A. ochraceus group; we counted these mixed samples only as A. alliaceus.