Filth in wheat flour, cassava flour, corn flour and corn meal
Vol. 45 No. 1-2 (1985), ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Vol. 45 No. 1-2 (1985)

Filth in wheat flour, cassava flour, corn flour and corn meal

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
https://doi.org/10.53393/rial.1985.45.36856
Published 1985-12-30
Claydes de Quadros Zamboni
Instituto Adolfo Lutz
Regina M. M. Silva Rodrigues
Instituto Adolfo Lutz
Mônica Arcon Batistic
Instituto Adolfo Lutz
Helena Ide Alves
Instituto Adolfo Lutz
Nazareth Spiteri
Instituto Adolfo Lutz
Márcia Bittar Atui
Instituto Adolfo Lutz
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Keywords

flours, microscopical filth detection
wheat flour
cassava flour
corn flour
corn meal

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Zamboni C de Q, Rodrigues RMMS, Batistic MA, Alves HI, Spiteri N, Atui MB. Filth in wheat flour, cassava flour, corn flour and corn meal. Rev Inst Adolfo Lutz [Internet]. 1985 Dec. 30 [cited 2024 May 17];45(1-2):89-93. Available from: https://periodicos.saude.sp.gov.br/RIAL/article/view/36856
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Abstract

Samples of four types of flour, 612 samples of wheat flour, 130 of cassava flour, 100 of corn flour, and 173 of corn meal were examined for
sanitary quality. Recovery of litght filth such as insect fragments, whole insects, mites, rodent hair, was ma de by tlre pancreatin digestion method. It was found that 43% of the wheat flour samples, 2% of the cassava flour samples, 9% of the corn flour sarnples, and 8% of the corn meal samples were in unsanitary conditions; while 4% of the wheat fiou"!" samples, 120/0 of cassava flour sarnples, 5% of corn flour samples and 30/0 of the corn meal samples were unfit for human consumption. It is suggested that the Alimentary Codex be modified to tolerate up to 10 insect fragments per 30 g of flour.

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