A previous quantitative risk assessment performed in the same region from Argentina predicted that approximately 0.66% of the milk produced in Argentina's central dairy region exceeds the maximum level accepted by MERCOSUR. However, considering the European regulations, the estimated percentage of samples that exceed the maximum were 32.65%. In this study none of the samples showed levels of AFM1 higher than the maximum level accepted by MERCOSUR and only 7.5% of the milk samples presented levels of AFM1 higher than the limit established by the European regulation. Therefore, we may conclude that the estimations provided by quantitative risk assessments are reliable when compared with the data emerging
from field studies.