Mycotoxins and consumers' awareness: Recent progress and future challenges

K Mukhtar, BG Nabi, S Ansar, ZF Bhat, RM Aadil… - Toxicon, 2023 - Elsevier
While food shortages have become an important challenge, providing safe food resources is
a point of interest on a global scale. Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites that are formed …

Six main contributing factors to high levels of mycotoxin contamination in African foods

QN Nji, OO Babalola, TI Ekwomadu, N Nleya… - Toxins, 2022 - mdpi.com
Africa is one of the regions with high mycotoxin contamination of foods and continues to
record high incidences of liver cancers globally. The agricultural sector of most African …

A review of toxigenic fungi and mycotoxins in feeds and food commodities in West Africa

AO Aasa, FF Fru, OA Adelusi… - World Mycotoxin …, 2023 - wageningenacademic.com
Fungal contamination is a threat to food safety in West Africa with implications for food and
feed due to their climate, which is characterised by high temperatures and high relative …

Prevalence and concentration of mycotoxins in animal feed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA): A systematic review and meta-analysis

G Jalilzadeh-Amin, B Dalir-Naghadeh… - Toxins, 2023 - mdpi.com
This study seeks a comprehensive meta-analysis of mycotoxin contaminants in animal feed
consumed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The obtained articles were …

Mycotoxins—prevention, detection, impact on animal health

J Kępińska-Pacelik, W Biel - Processes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mycotoxins are defined as secondary metabolites of some species of mold fungi. They are
present in many foods consumed by animals. Moreover, they most often contaminate …

Novel non-thermal food processing techniques and their mechanism of action in mycotoxins decontamination of foods

MM Urugo, TA Teka, RA Berihune, SL Teferi… - Innovative Food Science …, 2023 - Elsevier
This review describes the major food and feed contaminating mycotoxins and provides a
thorough insight about non-thermal food processing techniques and their mycotoxin …

[HTML][HTML] Mycotoxins in Food: Cancer Risks and Strategies for Control

AN Mafe, D Büsselberg - Foods, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Mycotoxins are toxic compounds produced by fungi such as Aspergillus, Penicillium, and
Fusarium, contaminating various food crops and posing severe risks to food safety and …

[HTML][HTML] Feeding Lycium barbarum polysaccharides (LBP) alleviates apoptotic, inflammatory hepatopancreas atrophy and injury in Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir …

X Yu, W Liu, K Chen, Y Liu, Y Deng, C Chi - Aquaculture Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
Chinese herbs and their purified components in aquafeeds have been proved effective to
combat stress in aquatic animals to combat toxic environmental stress. Lycium barbarum …

Vibrio gazogenes-dependent disruption of aflatoxin biosynthesis in Aspergillus flavus: the connection with endosomal uptake and hyphal morphogenesis

R Jesmin, JW Cary, MD Lebar, R Majumdar… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Aflatoxins, a family of fungal secondary metabolites, are toxic and carcinogenic compounds
that pose an enormous threat to global food safety and agricultural sustainability …

Development and validation of a QuEChERS-LC-MS/MS method for determination of multiple mycotoxins in maize and sorghum from Botswana

M Mbisana, T Rebagamang, D Mogopodi… - Frontiers in Fungal …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Climatic conditions such as drought, high temperatures, and pre-harvest rainfalls promote
the occurrence of mycotoxins in grains. Contamination of staple food sources such as maize …