“…The occurrence of AFs in rice has also been reported in a number of countries: Bangladesh (Dawlatana et al, 2002), Brazil (Almeida et al, 2012), China (Liu, Gao, & Yu, 2006;Wang & Liu, 2007), Canada (Bansal et al 2011), India (Reddy, Reddy, & Muralidharan, 2009), Korea (Ee OK et al, 2014;Park, Choi, Hwang, & Kim, 2005), Pakistan (Majeed, Iqbal, Asi, & Iqbal, 2013), Turkey (Aydin, Aksu, & Gunsen, 2011), Tunisia (Ghali, Hmaissia-Khlifa, Ghorbel, Maaroufi, & Hedili, 2008), Vietnam (Nguyen, Tozlovanu, Tran, & Pfohl-Leszkowicz, 2007) and the United States (Abbas & Shier, 2009). Aflatoxins (AFs) are the most important human mycotoxins and are primarily produced by certain Aspergillus species, in particular Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus.…”