TABLE 3.
Worldwide occurrence of aflatoxins in silage.
| Country | Mycotoxin | Sample | No. of samples | No. of positive sample (Incidence%) | Mean concentration (μg/kg) | Range (μg/kg) | References |
| Argentina | AFB1 | Corn silage | 35 | 6(17.0%) | – | 1.4 – 155.8 | González Pereyra et al., 2008 |
| Argentina | AFB1 | Trench silo | 43 | 6(14.0%) | – | 1.0 – 190.0 | González Pereyra et al., 2011 |
| Argentina | AFB1 | Silo bag | 35 | 19(54.3%) | – | 5.8 – 47.4 | González Pereyra et al., 2011 |
| Brazil | AFB1 | Corn silage | 116 | 15(13.0%) | 33.0 | 2.0 – 61.0 | Keller et al., 2013 |
| Brazil | AFB1 | Corn silage | 327 | 3(0.9%) | 3.0 | 1.0 – 6.0 | Schmidt et al., 2015 |
| France | AFB1 | Corn silage | – | – | 28.0 | 7.0 – 51.3 | Richard et al., 2009 |
| Iran | Total AF | Silage | 42 | 7(16.7%) | 1.24 | 1.1 – 27.3 | Hashemi et al., 2012 |
| Uruguay | Total AF | Wheat silage | 220 | – | 17.0 | 6.1 – 23.3 | del Palacio et al., 2016 |
–, not evaluated data.