Decontamination grain

Plants, fruits, vegetables, and grains should be quarantined until tested and determined to be safe to consume. Aeration or decontamination with soap and water may be sufficient in many cases. 

Charmley, L.L. and Prelusky, D.B., Decontamination of Fusarium mycotoxins, in Miller, J.D. and Tremholm, H.L., eds.. Grain - compounds Other Than Aflatoxin Mycotoxins, Eagan Press, St. Paul, 1994. 

Only once the cultivation of potatoes as an important, starch-containing food source had spread, fungicides were applied, and decontamination of grains was ultimately established, ergotism disappeared. 

FIG. 9.5. Surface of coupon from rack 2 showing grain boundaries after decontamination. 

Geotextile tubes for dewatering and decontamination of fine-grained soils... 

The previous chapter in this book, by Lawson (2015), reviewed the three options of geotextiles used as flexible forms bags, containers, and tubes. Fig. 21.1 shows dewatering and decontaminating fine-grained river and harbor sediments however, tube sizes are used invariably. Flexible soil-filled fabric tubes were made as early as 1957, but initially they were not successful. Eventually, in 1967 a patent was granted to a Danish firm, Aldek A.S., in conjunction with the Danish Institute of Applied Hydraulics. Aldek s system was developed further in 1970 (Zirbel, 1975). 

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