Abstract
Food Safety Commission of Japan (FSCJ) conducted a risk assessment of aflatoxin M1 in milk and aflatoxin B1 in feeds in response to the requests of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) and Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries (MAFF), respectively. As a consequence, FSCJ concluded that the potential of AFB1 in formula feeds to exert adverse effects on human health through milk or other livestock products is extremely low. However, considering that AFM1 and some of its metabolite possibly contained in livestock products are genotoxic carcinogens, the AFB1 contamination in feeds and the AFM1 contamination in milk need to be suppressed to an ALARA (as low as reasonably achievable) level.
