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Thailand is in a tropical zone with much rains and high humidity which are suitable for rapid growth of fungi including Aspergillus. Aflatoxins (AF) mainly AFB1 are frequently observed in agricultural commodity products which are good substrates, especially peanuts, corn, copra, rice flour, noodle, dried plants, and shrimp. Problems are the high contamination of AF in Thai food and agricultural products. Approaches to the AF decontamination at pre- and post-harvesting will be explained and discussed, and the contaminant detoxification of AF and its mutagenicity which were mostly destroyed by ammonium salts to reduce human exposure and health risk will be presented. It is our goal and plan that the AF contamination problem in dietary products and animal feeds and health risk will be reduced and solved in the near future. Hopefully, if no other factors much involved, the incidence of liver cancer and diseases among Thai population would be subsequently somewhat decreased. All these control measures for AF risk have been done nationwide by research, education, presonnel training and restrict regulation.
