Open AccessInvestigation of fungal contamination in some types of chips in the market in Karbala
Author(s) -
Ihsan Ali Al-Zamily
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1879/2/022017
Subject(s) - aspergillus , penicillium , alternaria , rhizopus , mycotoxin , fusarium , contamination , fungus , aspergillus ochraceus , aflatoxin , ochratoxin a , curvularia , biology , food science , botany , ecology , fermentation
Different types of chips samples sell were collected from some markets in Karbala city, which its made in Jordan (Chipsico and Alsaada), Saudia (Liz, Gillts, Doritos), Iran (Bovac, G Toz and Macho) and Iraq (Hala, Dalia, Al-Aseel). The Iranian Chips were the most contaminated, where Iraqi and Jordanian Chips comes in the second. The results of isolating fungi study in chips types, showed diversity in numbers and kinds of fungi. The genus Aspergillus is a fungus predominate on all isolates and followed by Penicillium . Also different genera including Fusarium, Alternaria, Curvularia and Rhizopus have been isolated. It is mentioned that these fungi are dangerous because they produce myctoxins, especially aflatoxin and ochratoxin. It was noted that, the Saudi products are free from contamination. Ammonia test and Fluorescence was used to identify the aflatoxin-producing isolates and it appeared that isolates of Aspergillus had great potential to produce these toxins.