Detection of ochratoxin a in experimental tanks effluents of pacific white shrimp
International Journal of Development Research
Detection of ochratoxin a in experimental tanks effluents of pacific white shrimp
Received 06th October, 2019; Received in revised form 17th November, 2019; Accepted 11th December, 2019; Published online 29th January, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Aline Marques MONTE et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The shrimp farming is a profitable activity and widely practiced in the Northeast of Brazil. The shrimp feed may serve as ideal substrates for fungal growth and mycotoxin production, thus, this study aimed to investigate ochratoxin A (OTA) in water effluent from experimental tanks of pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeusvannamei). One hundred water effluent samples were collected from experimental tanks with shrimp fed with diets contaminated with four different levels of OTA (T1: 100 μg / kg, T2: 500 μg / kg, T3: 1000 μg / kg, control group T4: 0,0 μg / Kg, and T5: 100μg/Kg OTA + 500 μg / kg of aflatoxin B1), followed by the determination and quantification of OTA performed by high performance liquid chromatography. Shrimp feed with ochratoxin A can contaminate the effluent of experimental tanks of Pacific white shrimp (Litopenaeusvannamei).
