bi0boy
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This is suburbans, people die here from eating frozen food.
Cutting the mouldy bits off cheese.
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This is suburbans, people die here from eating frozen food.
jontz01
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Calamouldri
pogofish
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For the more serious concerns, maybe not. However there seems to be some sort of cumulative risk involved, so if you commonly trim and eat mouldy food, you could be stoking-up real trouble for the future.
For the less serious risks, it could be a lot more common than folk realise as the symptoms are similar to a host of other toxins and could easily be mistaken for more "normal" food poisoning. Attempts to quantify this are still in the early stages - Stored pulses/dried goods were a particular area of interest IIRC.
pogofish
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Is there a difference between the mould on cheese that's meant to be mouldy and mould on cheese that's not? I've often wondered that. I'll cut the mould of a bit of cheddar and yet eat a lump of roquefort that is more mould than cheese quite happily.
Mould ripening cheese invariably uses very specific strains. Either by choice or by historic environmental accident. The same can't be said for general moulds picked-up from other forms of contact or in the distribution/retail chain.
Callie
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The whole long term risk from aflatoxins thing though is an odd one. Loads of things over the period of ones life time will increase the persons risk of developing cancer. The sun for example. Someone switch it off please, it's giving me cancer 
one day, maybe.
Are the aflatoxins present only when the mould is visible? or are they produce by the hyphae/germinating spores too? If they are produced at any stage surely the risk is there if youre chopping bits of mould off or not.
one day, maybe.Are the aflatoxins present only when the mould is visible? or are they produce by the hyphae/germinating spores too? If they are produced at any stage surely the risk is there if youre chopping bits of mould off or not.
crustychick
doo-woop-de-doo
we found mould on our maple syrup today... will probably just skim it off...
cheese - cut mould off, then eat. am still alive, I think
cheese - cut mould off, then eat. am still alive, I think
Callie
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found mould on our maple syrup today... will probably just skim it off...
cheese - cut mould off, then eat. am still alive, I think
ultimately you will die though
when i die i want the cause of death to be listed as 'cheese' 
pogofish
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The whole long term risk from aflatoxins thing though is an odd one. Loads of things over the period of ones life time will increase the persons risk of developing cancer. The sun for example. Someone switch it off please, it's giving me cancer
Are the aflatoxins present only when the mould is visible?
Not really - Its more a matter of considering your own histories and minimising the potential risks for the various types of cancers as best you can. Also remember that the serious conditions most associated with aflatoxins are ones previously largely attributed to alcohol - a rethink on the whole cumulative/concurent exposure situation there may be in order? Also remember that aflatoxins are amongst the most carcinogenic substances known. Far beyond fags and the sun.
No. They can be present the whole time as they can often be acquired from environmental/production stages.
Callie
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So would not eating cheese with visible furry bits make any difference to your exposure whatsoever?!
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