| mycological survey for potential aflatoxin and ochratoxin producers and their toxicological properties in harvested brazilian black pepper. | a mycological survey was carried out on 115 samples of whole dried black pepper seeds, from two main production regions of brazil (pará and espírito santo). a high incidence of contamination was verified in both regions when 99.1% of the samples showed filamentous fungi contamination. a total of 497 species of nine different genera were isolated (aspergillus, eurotium, rhizopus, penicillium, curvularia, cladosporium, absidia, emericella and paecilomyces). the genus aspergillus was the predominan ... | 2003 | 14726275 |