It has happened to most of us before: mould on a food! But around the handling of molded fruit, bread & co. there is a lot of dangerous semi-knowledge, as a representative population survey shows now.
After the health alert by contaminated roasted peanuts, specialists from the Food Safety Laboratory (LIA) of the University of O’Higgins explain why this toxin is undetectable to the naked eye, carcinogenic in prolonged consumption and why roasting or boiling the food does not eliminate it. The recent warning by roasted peanut contaminated with aflatoxins [...]