Assessment of aflatoxigenic and other fungi in millet and sesame from Plateau State, Nigeria.

Sixteen fonio millet and 17 sesame samples were analysed for incidence of moulds, especially aflatoxigenic species, in order to determine the safety of both crops to consumers, and to correlate aflatoxin levels in the crops with levels produced by toxigenic isolates on laboratory medium. Diverse moulds including and were isolated. was predominantly present in both crops (46-48%), and amongst the potentially aflatoxigenic species, recorded the highest incidence (68% in fonio millet; 86% in sesame kernels).