| determination of deoxynivalenol in wheat-based breakfast cereals marketed in portugal. | deoxynivalenol (don), also known as vomitoxin, is one of a group of closely related secondary fungal metabolites--the trichothecenes--and is produced predominantly by several species of the genus fusarium, especially fusarium graminearum. the present study was carried out to evaluate the natural occurrence of don in different kinds of wheat-based breakfast cereals widely consumed by the population. a total of 88 commercially available samples of wheat-based breakfast cereals were randomly collec ... | 2001 | 11726173 |