Change in the DON-toxin of Wheat in the Mill Industry Cleaning Process

Abstract

In the course of the research we examined in a technological environment that if we use optical sorting and modern surface cleaning in the mill cleaning process, how does the toxin contamination of wheat samples change. We collected data on harvested wheat grains in three years to determine if the toxin content of corn samples can be reduced by the combined use of Sortex Z optical sorting and Schule Verticone VPC 480 surface cleaning machines. Descriptive statistics clearly showed that at the end of the purification process the average toxin level of the tested wheat samples decreased in every year. And with inductive statistics at 95% probability level, we found that the previous statement is true for wheat lots also. That is, in the case of the examined years in the purification process in which mentioned modern equipments are used, the contamination of the DON toxin of wheat lots can be reduced before milling.