Mycotoxins are toxic substances that can infect many foods with carcinogenic, genotoxic,
teratogenic, nephrotoxic, and hepatotoxic effects. Mycotoxin contamination of foodstuffs …

Highlights•National burden of disease studies are needed to define food safety
priorities.•Initiatives to support capacity building and collaboration are emerging.•Novel …

Mycotoxins contaminating animal feed can exert toxic effects in animals and be transferred
into animal products. Therefore, mycotoxin occurrence in feed should be monitored. To this …

During the last decade, scientists have given increasingly frequent warnings about global
warming, linking it to mycotoxin-producing moulds in various geographical regions across …

Fungi have the ability to transform organic materials into a rich and diverse set of useful
products and provide distinct opportunities for tackling the urgent challenges before all …

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 …

Climate change (CC) is predicted to increase the risk of aflatoxin (AF) contamination in
maize, as highlighted by a project supported by EFSA in 2009. We performed a …

Aflatoxins (AFs) are a group of carcinogenic and immunosuppressive mycotoxins that
threaten global food safety. Globally, over 4.5 billion people are exposed to unmonitored …

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by fungal species that commonly have a
toxic effect on human and animal health. Different foodstuff can be contaminated and are …

We live in unprecedented times-the Anthropocene-defined by far-reaching human impacts
on the natural systems that underpin civilisation. Planetary Health explores the many …