Comment Submitted by
Joseph Betz
2008-03-31 10:12:46
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5.3.3 and 5.3.4
5.3.3 If you want to exclude the organisms responsible for mycotoxin production, should name mycotoxigenic Aspergillus spp. Difficult to set a level for that.
5.3.4 Aflatoxins are natural toxins and should be here. want to deal with fumonisins (from Fusarium spp); Ochratoxin (species of Aspergillus and Penicillium); patulin (also from various Aspergillus and Penicillium spp., a possible issue in fruit based supplements); citrinin, from Aspergillus and Penicillium but also from certain strains of the red yeast rice yeast Monascus ruber.
the E. senticosus line is appropriate. However, there may be species of Plantago other than lanceolata that might contain Digitalis (e.g. P. major). The real problem is with the contained cardiac glycosides, which occur in several Digitalis species. Plantago spp leaf does not contain Digitalis leaf might be more appropriate (that gets away from psyllium seed, Plantagog ovata).
May be other spp. of Teucrium, Scutellaria spp shall not contain Teucrium spp.
Stephania tetrandra (note that the specific epithet is mispelled in the .pdf of 5.3.5)with Aristolochia spp.
In addition, it is possible that materials may be traded in a form that makes botanical identification to the specises level impossible. In all cases, the reasons for excluding the named species is because of known toxic constituents. It may therefore be necessary to name the toxins to be excluded in addition to the undesireable plant names.
5.3.6 Any discussion of methyl mercury in fish oil?
7.4 Do you mean to cite AOAC's OMA 2007.05 for the AA determination?
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