Correlation Between Climatic Data and Aflatoxin Contamination of Iranian Pistachio Nuts

DANESH, D., H. MOJTAHEDI, R. BARNETT, and A. CAMPBELL. 1979. Correlation between climatic data and aflatoxin contamination of Iranian pistachio nuts. Phytopathology 69:715-716. All shipments of Iranian pistachio nuts to the USA must be inspected for were rainfall and number of calm days per month from August through aflatoxin contamination and at irregular intervals some of them are November, the period of ripening and harvest. These conclusions support rejected. The only point-of-origin climatic factors correlated with rejections those of previous studies.