Mycotoxins in Nuts

Every year during the pre- holiday activities the use of nuts increases in order to prepare for the holiday baking. To a large degree unnoticed by consumers is the problem of a possible contamination of these foods with mycotoxins. The EU wide uniform evaluation of contaminants - besides the establishing for top limits for mycotoxins - also stipulates the guidelines of sample taking and sample processing and methods of analysis. Today already, instruments for analysis achieve undreamt precision during the determination of the finest traces of contamination and toxins. Increasingly problematic is the preparation of a representative sample.

The best methods of analysis are only as good as the sample taking and sample preparation in the early stages. Binding standards therefore were set for the sample taking and sample preparation in regards to the

The features that set the Fritsch Universal-Cutting Mill PULVERISETTE 19 cutting mill apart from other cutting mills include: quick lock of the housing; standard funnel for long, bulk materials without dead storage capacity; standard rotor with V-cutting edges; cutting rotor can be removed without tools; to clean the sieve cassette it can be removed machine without tools; swieve not supported by housing parts, easy access area beneath the sieve; and stainless steel collection vessel easy to clean.

The Universal-Cutting Mill PULVERISETTE 19 can also be completed with other accessories. The use of a cutting rotor and the corresponding fixed knives of hardmetal tungsten carbide is possible. Additional accessories, for example the sample extraction via cyclone, are available and very useful with other tasks. Here samples of long fibrous bulky materials  such as hay and straw are to be mentioned.