The results from the first extraction experiment are shown in Table 3, and the findings of the second and third are in Table 4. Taking together the results of all three, aflatoxin was reduced to a mean of 10% (standard error of the mean ¼ 2.2%) of the original oil using an oil: solvent ratio of 1:3 in triplicate. In the case of HA, total aflatoxins were reduced from 18200 mg/kg whole peanuts to 185 mg/kg pressed oil to 11 mg/kg CL-treated oil. The comparison of experiments 2 and 3 should be interpreted with caution, as the initial aflatoxin concentration in the two treatment groups differed.