Table 3.
The highest concentrations of aflatoxin B1 and total aflatoxins in foods notified by RASFF in 2015–2020.
| No. | Product | AFB1 (µg/kg) |
AFT a (µg/kg) |
Origin | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Peanut paste | 707,000 | 907,000 | Senegal | 2016 |
| 2 | Peanuts | 180,200 | 220,900 | China | 2015 |
| 3 | Groundnuts in shell | 42,100 | 46,800 | Egypt | 2019 |
| 4 | Groundnuts | 17,000 | 38,000 | Turkey | 2016 |
| 5 | Pistachios | − | 26,300 | Germany | 2020 |
| 6 | Peanut in shell | 24,000 | 26,000 | China | 2015 |
| 7 | Almonds | − | 24,000 | US | 2018 |
| 8 | Dried figs | 15,300 | − | Turkey | 2020 |
| 9 | Roasted chopped hazelnuts | 4000 | 15,200 | Turkey | 2015 |
| 10 | Shelled nuts | 12,890 | 14,420 | Turkey | 2019 |
| 11 | Organic groundnut kernels | 11,000 | 14,000 | Egypt | 2020 |
| 12 | Dried red chilies | 13,700 | 14,000 | India | 2020 |
| 13 | Roasted and salted watermelon seeds | 13,700 | − | Turkey | 2020 |
| 14 | Shelled almonds | 10,440 | 11,420 | US | 2019 |
| 15 | Hazelnut kernels | 7200 | − | Georgia | 2019 |
a AFT = sum of aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, and G2; processed according to the RASFF database [144].