Assessing Risk of Fumonisin Contamination in Maize Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

Table 5

Results of discriminant analysis based on NIRS to sort maize samples according to their risk of contamination with fumonisins.

From	To
	Fumonisin content <4000 μg/kg	Fumonisin content >4000 μg/kg	Total	Well-classified samples
Calibration
Fumonisin content <4000 μg/kg	54	1	55	98%
Fumonisin content >4000 μg/kg	3	42	45	93%
Total	57	43	100	96%
Independent verification
Fumonisin content <4000 μg/kg	10	2	12	83%
Fumonisin content >4000 μg/kg	1	4	5	80%
Total	11	6	17	82%