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From: leimkuhl@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Killer Apples
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Date: Sun, 16-Feb-86 21:32:00 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb 16 21:32:00 1986
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Nf-From: uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU!leimkuhl    Feb 16 20:32:00 1986




Ok, now that apple seeds have been retired, what about aflatoxin.

Does anyone have the real scoop on this--reportedly incredibly deadly--
substance that forms in peanut mold?  I was once told (and read in Graham
Greene's The Human Factor) that packaged peanuts are checked under a 
blacklight for afla mold, because just one or two bad peanuts can kill you.

I'm just a little concerned because I've been known to eat two pounds of
unsalted in-the-shell peanuts at a time, and I don't see how they can know
that there's no mold INSIDE the peanut by looking at it.

-Ben "Mr. Peanut" Leimkuhler