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Aflatoxins in Iran: Nature, Hazards and Carcinogenicity
Many studies have shown that mycotoxin contamination of agricultural products is a challenge for individual’s health especially in developing countries. Improper production and storage of foods, prepare conditions for aflatoxin production in crops, especially rice, wheat, pistachio, walnut, almond,...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481745/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23113099 |
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author | Khoshpey, B Farhud, DD Zaini, F |
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description | Many studies have shown that mycotoxin contamination of agricultural products is a challenge for individual’s health especially in developing countries. Improper production and storage of foods, prepare conditions for aflatoxin production in crops, especially rice, wheat, pistachio, walnut, almond, etc which are the main sources of foods for people. Feeding livestock by contaminated bread is another way of human exposure to mycotoxins, especially aflatoxin and because of expensive methods for detecting and analyzing aflatoxin in laboratory; it is not measured in foods. This manuscript is a review of some Iranian and nonIranian reports about aflatoxin, its exposure ways, its adverse effect on human health and nutrition, as well as methods for reducing its exposure. Based on studies on foods, aflatoxin exposure is high in Iran. Since livestock feeding by contaminated bread is one of the potential ways for milk contamination, we should control and reduce aflatoxin contamination by improving production process, storage condition and livestock feeding as soon as possible. Pistachio is one of the most important exporting products of Iran and to maintain Iran’s position in exporting of this product, specific regulations on lowering its contamination with aflatoxin should be considered seriously. Finally, effective controlling of all food and feedstuffs which are vulnerable to aflatoxin contamination is necessary to prevent its effects. |
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spelling | pubmed-34817452012-10-30 Aflatoxins in Iran: Nature, Hazards and Carcinogenicity Khoshpey, B Farhud, DD Zaini, F Iran J Public Health Review Article Many studies have shown that mycotoxin contamination of agricultural products is a challenge for individual’s health especially in developing countries. Improper production and storage of foods, prepare conditions for aflatoxin production in crops, especially rice, wheat, pistachio, walnut, almond, etc which are the main sources of foods for people. Feeding livestock by contaminated bread is another way of human exposure to mycotoxins, especially aflatoxin and because of expensive methods for detecting and analyzing aflatoxin in laboratory; it is not measured in foods. This manuscript is a review of some Iranian and nonIranian reports about aflatoxin, its exposure ways, its adverse effect on human health and nutrition, as well as methods for reducing its exposure. Based on studies on foods, aflatoxin exposure is high in Iran. Since livestock feeding by contaminated bread is one of the potential ways for milk contamination, we should control and reduce aflatoxin contamination by improving production process, storage condition and livestock feeding as soon as possible. Pistachio is one of the most important exporting products of Iran and to maintain Iran’s position in exporting of this product, specific regulations on lowering its contamination with aflatoxin should be considered seriously. Finally, effective controlling of all food and feedstuffs which are vulnerable to aflatoxin contamination is necessary to prevent its effects. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2011-12-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3481745/ /pubmed/23113099 Text en Copyright © Iranian Public Health Association & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Khoshpey, B Farhud, DD Zaini, F Aflatoxins in Iran: Nature, Hazards and Carcinogenicity |
title | Aflatoxins in Iran: Nature, Hazards and Carcinogenicity |
title_full | Aflatoxins in Iran: Nature, Hazards and Carcinogenicity |
title_fullStr | Aflatoxins in Iran: Nature, Hazards and Carcinogenicity |
title_full_unstemmed | Aflatoxins in Iran: Nature, Hazards and Carcinogenicity |
title_short | Aflatoxins in Iran: Nature, Hazards and Carcinogenicity |
title_sort | aflatoxins in iran: nature, hazards and carcinogenicity |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3481745/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23113099 |
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