B. K. R. Sinha ¹, K. S. Ranjan ¹, T. N. Pandey ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Microbiology, Bihar Veterinary College, Patna -14, IN

Abstract

Fish is one of the favourable dish for non-vegetarian people and is considered important from the nutritional point of view. These days fish consumption is becoming more popular as it supplies a good balance of protein, vitamins and minerals and has relatively low calories. In some parts of Bihar, especially in tribal area, fish is taken mostly in dried forms. Recently attention has been paid on the contamination of different food with aflatoxin producing fungi, which causes considerable hazards to health associated with liver damage and carcinogenicity. The toxic effect of fish contaminated with aflatoxin drew attention when in 1960 an outbreak of hepatoma in hatchery reared rainbow-trout in Washington was traced to aflatoxin contaminated fish food. The accumulation of aflatoxin in food producing animals may pose a formidable public health problem. Thus, the present investigation was taken to find out the level of aflatoxin in different types of fishes of Bihar.

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Basant K. Sinha ¹, K. S. Ranjan ¹, T. N. Pandey ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Microbiology, Bihar Veterinary College, Patna-800 014, Bihar, IN

Abstract

The most common foodgrains used by human beings include cereals and pulses. Non-vegetarian human beings derive their source of protein from animal origin foods, whereas chief source of protein In vegetarian diet is different types of pulses in their food. The preponderent number of vegetarians in the worid, nearly 67 per cent lean heavily on pulses for derivation of basic protein.

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