Mycotoxins

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Boskovic-Bogosavljevic announced Friday that from January 1, the tolerance level of aflatoxin in milk in the domestic market will be 0.05 micrograms per kilogram of milk.

A monk on Mount Athos has become the second person in Greece since September to die from eating a poisonous mushroom.

The 63-year-old was taken to a hospital in Thessaloniki on Monday but could not be saved as he suffered massive kidney failure, according to doctors.

More than 40 people have been poisoned by wild mushrooms in Greece over the last month, one of whom has died, health authorities said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The Central Association of Dairy Producers of Vojvodina has asked the Serbian government to delay the implementation of the rules on the permitted level of aflatoxin in milk, since a quarter of the milk entering production fails to meet the standard allowing a maximum 0.05 micrograms per kilogram established by the entry into force of a relevant governmental decree.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Agriculture Dragan Glamocic signed on Monday the Book of regulations envisaging the allowed limit of aflatoxin to be restored to the European level of 0.05 micrograms per kilogram as of July 1.

Serbia imports tons of food without control

For fifteen months already the quality of food products from abroad has been checked by random sampling.