Mycotoxins in Food: Cancer Risks and Strategies for Control

Foods, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 13(21), С. 3502 - 3502

Опубликована: Окт. 31, 2024

Mycotoxins are toxic compounds produced by fungi such as

Язык: Английский

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A Comprehensive Review of Mycotoxins, Their Toxicity, and Innovative Detoxification Methods

Toxicology Reports, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 14, С. 101952 - 101952

Опубликована: Фев. 7, 2025

A comprehensive overview of food mycotoxins, their toxicity, and contemporary detoxification techniques is given in this article. Mycotoxins, which are harmful secondary metabolites generated by a variety fungi, including Fusarium, Aspergillus, Penicillium, provide serious health concerns to humans animals. These include hepatotoxicity, neurotoxicity, carcinogenicity. Mycotoxins commonly found basic products, as evidenced recent studies, raising worries about public safety. The article discusses detection such enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), quick strip tests. Moreover, the use various control systems associated with mycotoxinis highlighted. In addition, novel strategies nanotechnology, plant extracts, omics studies were also discussed. When taken whole, analysis helps clarify pressing need for efficient management monitoring prevent mycotoxin contamination chain.

Язык: Английский

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Safety and Nutritional Risks Associated with Plant-Based Meat Alternatives

Sustainability, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 15(19), С. 14336 - 14336

Опубликована: Сен. 28, 2023

The market for plant-based meat alternatives is growing to meet consumer demands a more sustainable, ethical, and healthy diet, as well address global food security issues linked an increasing population climate change. Increased consumption of products raises questions about potential safety risks, including concerns allergenicity, toxicity, foodborne pathogens, adequate nutritional composition. From public health perspective, there has been limited research on the aspects products, studies risks these novel protein sources are not documented. Much nutrition foods commissioned or funded by companies developing other organizations promoting them. This article reviews existing literature analyses associated with nutritional, chemical, microbiological, allergen concerns. review revealed several gaps that merit further exploration inform conversation around future development commercialization substitutes. Further research, technological advancements, standards, risk assessment multidisciplinary approach essential facilitate responsible use new-generation alternatives, particularly emerging knowledge their benefits.

Язык: Английский

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Potential of emerging “all-natural” edible coatings to prevent post-harvest losses of vegetables and fruits for sustainable agriculture

Progress in Organic Coatings, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 193, С. 108537 - 108537

Опубликована: Май 27, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Application of Biosensors for the Detection of Mycotoxins for the Improvement of Food Safety

Toxins, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 16(6), С. 249 - 249

Опубликована: Май 27, 2024

Mycotoxins, secondary metabolites synthesized by various filamentous fungi genera such as Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, Claviceps, and Alternaria, are potent toxic compounds. Their production is contingent upon specific environmental conditions during fungal growth. Arising byproducts of metabolic processes, mycotoxins exhibit significant toxicity, posing risks acute or chronic health complications. Recognized highly hazardous food contaminants, present a pervasive threat throughout the agricultural processing continuum, from plant cultivation to post-harvest stages. The imperative adhere principles good industrial practice underscored mitigate risk mycotoxin contamination in production. In domain safety, rapid efficient detection holds paramount significance. This paper delineates conventional commercial methodologies for ensuring encompassing techniques like liquid chromatography, immunoassays, test strips, with emphasis on role electrochemiluminescence (ECL) biosensors, which known their high sensitivity specificity. These categorized into antibody-, aptamer-based, well molecular imprinting methods. examines latest advancements biosensors testing, particular focus amplification strategies operating mechanisms.

Язык: Английский

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Storage management practices and mycotoxin contamination of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) in northwest Ethiopia

Journal of Stored Products Research, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 111, С. 102535 - 102535

Опубликована: Янв. 15, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Occurrence of Mycotoxins in Dried Fruits Worldwide, with a Focus on Aflatoxins and Ochratoxin A: A Review

Toxins, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 15(9), С. 576 - 576

Опубликована: Сен. 18, 2023

Dried fruits are popular and nutritious snacks consumed worldwide due to their long shelf life concentrated nutrient content. However, can be contaminated with various toxigenic fungal species during different stages, including cultivation, harvesting, processing, drying, storage. Consequently, these products may contain high levels of mycotoxins. This risk is particularly pronounced in developed countries the impact climate change. Several factors contribute mycotoxin production, type fruit, geographical location, conditions, harvest treatments, storage management practices. The main mycotoxins dried aflatoxins (AFs) ochratoxin A (OTA), which induce human health problems economic losses. Mycotoxin contamination vary significantly depending on geographic origin (vine fruits, figs, dates, apricots, prunes, mulberries). aim this review was fill knowledge gap by consolidating data from regions understand global picture identify higher risks. By research origins stages supply chain, intends shed light potential events pre-harvest, storage, trading, while also highlighting effects conditions change contamination.

Язык: Английский

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Recent advances towards point-of-care devices for fungal detection: Emphasizing the role of plasmonic nanomaterials in current and future technologies

Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 255, С. 116243 - 116243

Опубликована: Март 24, 2024

Fungal infections are a significant global health problem, particularly affecting individuals with weakened immune systems. Moreover, as uncontrolled antibiotic and immunosuppressant use increases continuously, fungal have seen dramatic increase, some strains developing resistance. Traditional approaches to identifying often rely on morphological characteristics, thus owning limitations, such struggles in several or distinguishing between similar morphologies. This review explores the multifaceted impact of fungi individuals, healthcare providers, society, highlighting often-underestimated economic burden implications these infections. In light serious constraints traditional identification methods, this discusses potential plasmonic nanoparticle-based biosensors for infection identification. These can enable rapid precise pathogen detection by exploiting readout approaches, including various spectroscopic techniques, colorimetric electrochemical assays, well lateral-flow immunoassay methods. we report remarkable Lab Chip technology microfluidic devices, they recently emerged class advanced biosensors. Finally, provide an overview smartphone-based Point-of-Care devices associated technologies developed detecting pathogens.

Язык: Английский

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Bioprocess optimization for food-grade cellulolytic enzyme production from sorghum waste in a novel solid-state fermentation bioreactor for enhanced apple juice clarification

Journal of Environmental Management, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 358, С. 120781 - 120781

Опубликована: Апрель 11, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Food Safety Aspects of Breeding Maize to Multi-Resistance against the Major (Fusarium graminearum, F. verticillioides, Aspergillus flavus) and Minor Toxigenic Fungi (Fusarium spp.) as Well as to Toxin Accumulation, Trends, and Solutions—A Review

Journal of Fungi, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 10(1), С. 40 - 40

Опубликована: Янв. 4, 2024

Maize is the crop which most commonly exposed to toxigenic fungi that produce many toxins are harmful humans and animals alike. Preharvest grain yield loss, preharvest toxin contamination (at harvest), storage loss estimated be between 220 265 million metric tons. In past ten years, mycotoxin damage was stable or increased mainly in aflatoxin fumonisins. The presence of multiple characteristic. few breeding programs concentrate on one three main fungi. About 90% experiments except AFB1 rarely test contamination. As disease resistance often differ regard F. graminearum, verticillioides, A. flavus their toxins, it not possible make a food safety evaluation according symptom severity alone. inheritance polygenic, mixed with epistatic additive effects, but only minor part phenotypic variation can explained. All tests made by single inoculum (pure isolate mixture). Genotype ranking differs isolates aggressiveness level; therefore, reliability such data problematic. Silk channel inoculation causes lower ear rot than we find kernel tests. These explain slow progress raise skepticism towards breeding. On other hand, during genetic research, several effective putative genes were identified, some overlapped known QTLs. QTLs identified as securing specific general different toxicogenic species. Hybrids good Resistance differences tenfold higher, allowing for introduction accumulation variety testing risks hybrids within 2–3 years. Beyond this, investigations (QTL-analyses, GWAM tests, etc.) improved. research may use success, where artificial necessary. multi-toxin reveal more treat now. Their control solved. limits nonregulated introduced, existing regulations stricter, should start. We mention higher verticillioides very useful balance detrimental effect hotter dryer seasons fumonisin This new aspect secure feed under otherwise damaging climatic conditions. resistant agents, likely reduce losses mentioned about 50% higher.

Язык: Английский

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