The incidence of mycological and aflatoxin contamination of groundnuts collected from Khartoum state in Sudan

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This study assessed the groundnuts collected from Khartoum state.

Forty groundnut samples were collected randomly at informal six markets in the three cities (Khartoum, Omdurman, Bakri) and analyzed for mycoflora and aflatoxins (B1, B2, G1, and G2) using standard methods.

The procedure of Vicam (Vicam, 2016) was followed in this test.

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The results indicated the incidence of contamination of different groundnut seeds types by Aspergillus spp.

collected from different markets in Khartoum State varied from 96.5 % in crushed seeds collected from Souq-klaklah in Khartoum city to 7.6% in roasted seeds from Souq-Bahri illustrate that the highest average of Aspergillus contamination incidence was reported in crushed seeds (92.95 %) followed by raw seeds (63.40%), whereas roasted seeds showed the lowest incidence (11.70%).