REMOVAL OF AFLATOXIN CONTAMINATED PEANUTS FROM PROCESSOR STREAMS

1) Develop and apply a method to obtain a training set of aflatoxin contaminated peanuts and an uncontaminated control set. 2) Use these training and control sets to establish properties indicative of aflatoxin contamination. Construct and test batch bench top sorter to detect peanuts of high aflatoxin content; adequate if they were removed to bring aflatoxin level of lot down by a factor of 10, while removing less than 2% of nuts. 3) Construct and demonstrate a real-time, commercial size unit to do above.