NATURAL OCCURRENCE OF DEOXYNIVALENOL IN SOYBEAN GROWN IN SERBIA - Soybean and Wheat Crops: Growth, Fertilization, and Yield - page 109

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Figure 2. Chromatograms (a, b) of soybean meal sample containing 0.45 mg/kg of DON.
Chromatogram b was recorded at ten times higher sensitivity.
D ISCUSSION
As can be seen from Table 1, the total number of contaminated samples, i.e. the samples
in which DON content was above the limit of quantification (0.040 mg/kg) was 7 or 16.7%,
the percentage of contaminated samples being highest for the 2006 harvest (4 out of 12).
Average content in positive samples was 0.248 mg/kg (concentration range 0.10−0.45 mg
DON/kg), the DON content being highest again in the 2006 samples. This can be explained
by the climatic conditions of that year, which varied from the markedly wet spring months via
drier beginning of the summer, to the extremely rainy August. The beginning of the autumn,