Many people regard monascus rice as a sacred product for health care, but monascus products are not easy to preserve and are easy to breed harmful fungi. If you accidentally eat the toxin, you may hurt your liver and kidney! Nutritionists remind that even if it is a hygienic monascus product, some patients with chronic diseases should still eat it carefully to avoid interaction with drugs and cause health hazards.

Monascus has the health-care effects of reducing blood lipid and preventing cardiovascular diseases, which has set off a health-care upsurge in recent years. The picture shows the red distiller's grains fermented by monascus. (Figure/taken from Wikipedia website) The sample of Aspergillus oryzae citrinin produced on land exceeded the standard 12 times.

The US Food and Drug Administration of the Ministry of Health and Welfare announced the test results of mycotoxins in foods sold in the second half of last year on the 7th. 204 pieces of peanuts, nuts, dried fruits and rice products were randomly selected, and it was found that the contents of citrinin and aflatoxin in 3 pieces of Redmi and 1 piece of peanut powder did not meet the requirements. At present, recycling and destruction have been completed.

According to the current standard of mycotoxin in food, citrinin in raw material monascus rice is below 5 ppm; The aflatoxin * * * in peanuts is below 15 ppb.

The food that failed the mycotoxin monitoring this time, including the domestic peanut powder sampled by Yunlin Xiexin Edible Oil Company, exceeded the standard by 2 times; The content of citrinin in "Red Shell Rice" produced by Taibei Dongquan Co., Ltd., domestic Redmi produced by Xinyanxiang Agricultural Processing Cooperative in Pingtung County and China Redmi sold by Dianchengshen Pharmacy in Kaohsiung City exceeded 1.26 to 12.68 times respectively.