A large number of naturally occurring compounds, such as essential oils from plants, possess antifungal activity. Reports on the fungicidal and fungistatic activities of essential oils have shown that many of the oils are indeed potent inhibitors of fungal growth. In several studies essential oils have been reported to be effective against toxigenic and nontoxigenic fungi (Maruzzella and Liquori 1958; Maruzzella and Balter 1959; Barnes 1963; Calpouzos 1966; Aulakh and Grover 1968; Bullerman 1974; Bullerman et al. 1977; Moore and Atkins 1977; Sharma et al. 1979; Hitokoto et al. 1980; Sumbali and Mehrotra 1980; Buchanan and Shepherd 1981; Patel et al. 1983; Tiwari et al. 1983; Conner and Beuchat 1984).