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Modified Mycotoxins and Multitoxin Contamination of Food and Feed as Major Analytical Challenges
Mycotoxins, as natural products of molds, are often unavoidable contaminants of food and feed, to which the increasingly evident climate changes contribute a large part. The consequences are more or less severe and range from economic losses to worrying health problems to a fatal outcome. One of the...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10467123/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37624268 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins15080511 |
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author | Nešić, Ksenija Habschied, Kristina Mastanjević, Krešimir |
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description | Mycotoxins, as natural products of molds, are often unavoidable contaminants of food and feed, to which the increasingly evident climate changes contribute a large part. The consequences are more or less severe and range from economic losses to worrying health problems to a fatal outcome. One of the best preventive approaches is regular monitoring of food and feed for the presence of mycotoxins. However, even under conditions of frequent, comprehensive, and conscientious controls, the desired protection goal may not be achieved. In fact, it often happens that, despite favorable analytical results that do not indicate high mycotoxin contamination, symptoms of their presence occur in practice. The most common reasons for this are the simultaneous presence of several different mycotoxins whose individual content does not exceed the detectable or prescribed values and/or the alteration of the form of the mycotoxin, which renders it impossible to be analytically determined using routine methods. When such contaminated foods enter a living organism, toxic effects occur. This article aims to shed light on the above problems in order to pay more attention to them, work to reduce their impact, and, eventually, overcome them. |
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spelling | pubmed-104671232023-08-31 Modified Mycotoxins and Multitoxin Contamination of Food and Feed as Major Analytical Challenges Nešić, Ksenija Habschied, Kristina Mastanjević, Krešimir Toxins (Basel) Review Mycotoxins, as natural products of molds, are often unavoidable contaminants of food and feed, to which the increasingly evident climate changes contribute a large part. The consequences are more or less severe and range from economic losses to worrying health problems to a fatal outcome. One of the best preventive approaches is regular monitoring of food and feed for the presence of mycotoxins. However, even under conditions of frequent, comprehensive, and conscientious controls, the desired protection goal may not be achieved. In fact, it often happens that, despite favorable analytical results that do not indicate high mycotoxin contamination, symptoms of their presence occur in practice. The most common reasons for this are the simultaneous presence of several different mycotoxins whose individual content does not exceed the detectable or prescribed values and/or the alteration of the form of the mycotoxin, which renders it impossible to be analytically determined using routine methods. When such contaminated foods enter a living organism, toxic effects occur. This article aims to shed light on the above problems in order to pay more attention to them, work to reduce their impact, and, eventually, overcome them. MDPI 2023-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC10467123/ /pubmed/37624268 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins15080511 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Nešić, Ksenija Habschied, Kristina Mastanjević, Krešimir Modified Mycotoxins and Multitoxin Contamination of Food and Feed as Major Analytical Challenges |
title | Modified Mycotoxins and Multitoxin Contamination of Food and Feed as Major Analytical Challenges |
title_full | Modified Mycotoxins and Multitoxin Contamination of Food and Feed as Major Analytical Challenges |
title_fullStr | Modified Mycotoxins and Multitoxin Contamination of Food and Feed as Major Analytical Challenges |
title_full_unstemmed | Modified Mycotoxins and Multitoxin Contamination of Food and Feed as Major Analytical Challenges |
title_short | Modified Mycotoxins and Multitoxin Contamination of Food and Feed as Major Analytical Challenges |
title_sort | modified mycotoxins and multitoxin contamination of food and feed as major analytical challenges |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10467123/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37624268 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxins15080511 |
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