Advances in occurrence, importance, and mycotoxin control strategies: Prevention and detoxification in foods

S Agriopoulou, E Stamatelopoulou, T Varzakas - Foods, 2020 - mdpi.com
Mycotoxins are toxic substances that can infect many foods with carcinogenic, genotoxic,
teratogenic, nephrotoxic, and hepatotoxic effects. Mycotoxin contamination of foodstuffs …

Mycotoxins affecting animals, foods, humans, and plants: Types, occurrence, toxicities, action mechanisms, prevention, and detoxification strategies—A revisit

CG Awuchi, EN Ondari, CU Ogbonna, AK Upadhyay… - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
Mycotoxins are produced by fungi and are known to be toxic to humans and animals.
Common mycotoxins include aflatoxins, ochratoxins, zearalenone, patulin, sterigmatocystin …

[HTML][HTML] Mycotoxins: Factors influencing production and control strategies

R Daou, K Joubrane, RG Maroun… - AIMS Agriculture and …, 2021 - aimspress.com
Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by filamentous fungi in food and feed due
to several conditions that affect fungal growth and mycotoxin production in different ways …

Novel strategies for degradation of aflatoxins in food and feed: A review

Y Guo, L Zhao, Q Ma, C Ji - Food Research International, 2021 - Elsevier
Aflatoxins are toxic secondary metabolites mainly produced by Aspergillus fungi, posing
high carcinogenic potency in humans and animals. Dietary exposure to aflatoxins is a global …

Possibilities for the biological control of mycotoxins in food and feed

K Nešić, K Habschied, K Mastanjević - Toxins, 2021 - mdpi.com
Seeking useful biological agents for mycotoxin detoxification has achieved success in the
last twenty years thanks to the participation of many multidisciplinary teams. We have …

Designing an aptamer based magnetic and upconversion nanoparticles conjugated fluorescence sensor for screening Escherichia coli in food

H Li, W Ahmad, Y Rong, Q Chen, M Zuo, Q Ouyang… - Food Control, 2020 - Elsevier
The study assembles a highly sensitive upconversion fluorescence sensor for screening
Escherichia coli (E. coli) in food. The principle of the strategy was based on the specific …

[HTML][HTML] In vitro and in vivo evaluation of AFB1 and OTA-toxicity through immunofluorescence and flow cytometry techniques: A systematic review

M Frangiamone, A Cimbalo, M Alonso-Garrido… - Food and Chemical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the globalization, mycotoxins have been considered a major risk to human health
being the main contaminants of foodstuffs. Among them, AFB1 and OTA are the most toxic …

Antifungal Activity of Essential Oil and Plant-Derived Natural Compounds against Aspergillus flavus

F Tian, SY Woo, SY Lee, SB Park, Y Zheng, HS Chun - Antibiotics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Aspergillus flavus is a facultative parasite that contaminates several important food crops at
both the pre-and post-harvest stages. Moreover, it is an opportunistic animal and human …

The control of fungi and mycotoxins by food active packaging: A review

S Jafarzadeh, M Hadidi, M Forough… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Conventionally used petrochemical-based plastics are poorly degradable and cause severe
environmental pollution. Alternatively, biopolymers (eg, polysaccharides, proteins, lipids …

Dual Aptamer-DNAzyme based colorimetric assay for the detection of AFB1 from food and environmental samples

K Setlem, B Mondal, R Shylaja, M Parida - Analytical biochemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
In the present study, a colorimetric biosensor strategy is devised in combination with apta-
magnetic separation assisted with DNAzyme based colorimetric detection of Aflatoxin B1 …