Table 3.

Occurrence by harvest year of T-2 and HT-2 toxins, as the sum of their concentrations in raw oats, oat flakes and oat by-products from European oat mills in 2005–2009.

			Number of samples in the range (μg kg−1)
Year	Product	Number of samples	<5	5–50	50–200	200–500	500–750	>750	Mean (μg kg−1)	Median(μg kg−1)	90th %ile (μg kg−1)	Max (μg kg−1)
2006	Oats raw	32	0	3	15	10	2	2	261	189	664	841
2007	Oats raw	27	0	10	12	5	0	0	113	88	269	415
2008	Oats raw	99	16	70	11	2	0	0	27	15	65	283
2009	Oats raw	78	0	30	41	6	1	0	99	83	169	571
2006–2009	Oats raw	243	16	113	86	23	3	2	94	38	210	841
2005	Oat flakes	30	0	19	11	0	0	0	48	46	83	96
2006	Oat flakes	70	3	55	12	0	0	0	25	17	54	74
2006/2007	Oat flakes	57	15	42	0	0	0	0	12	10	22	31
2007	Oat flakes	66	1	59	6	0	0	0	24	16	36	197
2008	Oat flakes	177	67	110	0	0	0	0	11	9	21	42
2009	Oat flakes	99	33	66	0	0	0	0	12	11	20	32
2005–2009	Oat flakes	529	122	377	30	0	0	0	17	12	35	197
2006	Oat by-product	10	0	0	0	1	1	8	1144	1280	1462	1558
2007	Oat by-product	22	0	0	7	13	2	0	313	161	491	659
2008	Oat by-product	90	3	23	48	16	0	0	111	84	228	487
2009	Oat by-product	80	0	5	27	29	7	12	370	272	870	1711
2006–2009	Oat by-product	209	3	28	82	64	12	20	293	152	662	1711