Aflatoxins in breast milk, neonatal cord blood, and serum of pregnant women

Abstract

Aflatoxins in breast milk, neonatal cord blood, and serum of pregnant women Aflatoxins are fungal metabolites commonly found as toxic contaminants of food commodities in the tropics.'Aflatoxins have been detected in breast milk from mothers in the Sudan.2A study in the United States has shown that aflatoxins cross the complex porcine placenta and exert adverse biological effects on neonatal pigs.3Investigations conducted in Accra, Ghana, and Jos, Nigeria, therefore, sought to confirm the presence of aflatoxins in human breast milk and explored the possibility that aflatoxins cross the human placental membrane.