"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...

> > Detection methods range from procedures as simple
> > as visual observation of the toxin-producing fungi to
> > complicated chemical analyses of the toxins themselves.

> See. There ya go. "visual observation of the toxin-producing
> fungi". That's a recognized detection method.

Sure, in *unprocessed* corn. And there's no discussion of how
accurate visual observation is accurate ("[t]he detection of
aflatoxins is not exact and there are opportunities for error in all
of the steps involved"), nor whether any observed fungus is actually
aflatoxin-producing (as opposed to a more innocuous fungus).

But I have no intention of getting into a long debate with you about
it -- you feel better picking through your popcorn, by all means do
it. I have doubts about any such necessity and find it unnecessarily
hyper. But, then, I still eat raw eggs, too.

As always, your (the collective "your") mileage -- and hysteria
level -- will vary.

-j