Mycotoxins in food and feed

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Mycotoxins represent secondary fungal metabolites not essential to the normal growth and reproduction of a fungus, but capable of causing biochemical, physiological and pathological changes in many species. Harmful effects of mycotoxins observed in humans and animals include carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, immune toxicity, neurotoxicity, hepatotoxicity, nephrotoxicity, reproductive and developmental toxicity, indigestion and so forth. These substances can be found in a variety of very important agricultural and food products, primarily dependent of product moisture content, and its water activity, relative air humidity, temperature, pH value, composition of the food matrix, the degree of its physical damage, and the presence of mold spores. Given that industrial processing has no significant effect on their reduction and in order to be able to vouch for the absence of mycotoxins, it is necessary to process foodstuffs under standardized and well-controlled conditions and to control each and every loop of the food production and storage chain. Preventative measures capable of reducing the contamination to the minimum must be in place and should be exercised by all means. In case that contamination does happen, methods for mycotoxin reduction or elimination should be implemented in dependence on a number of parameters such as properties of food or feed. Further research is needed in order to identify conditions that facilitate the growth of mycotoxin-producing fungi and develop effective preventative measures that can reduce contamination of food and feed as also to recognize possible synergistic effects of different mycotoxins in organism.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:89

Enthalten in:

Advances in food and nutrition research - 89(2019) vom: 27., Seite 297-345

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pleadin, Jelka [VerfasserIn]
Frece, Jadranka [VerfasserIn]
Markov, Ksenija [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Analytical methods
Decontamination
Feed
Food
Journal Article
Molds
Mycotoxins
Occurrence
Prevention
Reduction
Review

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Date Completed 22.01.2020

Date Revised 22.01.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/bs.afnr.2019.02.007

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM299632172