date:Dec 02, 2013
s below the average for the last ten years. The poorest oats harvest on record was in 2010, when shrivelled grains accounted for as much as 12.2 per cent.
Measured by quick analysis, a quarter of the oats samples exceeded the deoxynivalenol (DON) mycotoxin content of 1.75 mg/kg, which is the limit set for oats for human consumption. There was a lot of regional variation. In oats grown in Central Finland, South and North Savo and North Ostrobothnia, the greatest risk was that the limit for human