There is little information on the association of acute hepatoxicity in man with exposure to aflatoxins but cases of acute liver damage have been encountered that could possibly be attributed to acute aflatoxicosis. An outbreak of acute hepatitis in adjacent districts of two neighbouring states in north-west India, which affected several hundred people, was apparently associated with the ingestion of heavily contaminated maize, some samples of which contained aflatoxin levels in the mg/kg range, the highest reported level being 15 mg/kg