The mycotoxin factbook: food & feed topics

Mycotoxins are poisonous chemical compounds produced by certain fungi. There are many such compounds, but only a few of them are regularly found in food and animal feedstuffs. Nevertheless, those that do occur in food and feed have great significance in the health of humans and livestock. The effect...

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Körperschaft: World Mycotoxin Forum < 2005, Netherlands> (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Wageningen Wageningen Academic Publishers 2006
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Zusammenfassung:Mycotoxins are poisonous chemical compounds produced by certain fungi. There are many such compounds, but only a few of them are regularly found in food and animal feedstuffs. Nevertheless, those that do occur in food and feed have great significance in the health of humans and livestock. The effects of some mycotoxins are acute, with symptoms of severe illness appearing very quickly. Other mycotoxins have longer term chronic or cumulative effects on health, including the induction of cancers and immune deficiency. Information about mycotoxins is far from complete, but enough is known to identify them as a serious problem in many parts of the world, causing significant economic losses in addition to their negative health effects. 'The mycotoxin factbook' is aimed at the latest developments to combat the mycotoxin problem. The book contains the peer-review
Beschreibung:"Contains the ... papers of the third conference of the World Mycotoxin Forum, which was held in the Netherlands in November 2005"--Foreword. - Published as a supplement to: Meeting the mycotoxin menance. 2004. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Foreword; Table of contents; Mycotoxins in the context of food risks and nutrition issues; Moulds and mycotoxins as undesirable substances in animal feeds; Decision-making process and overview of recent and future European Union legislation on mycotoxins in food and feed; Economic impact of fumonisin and aflatoxin regulations on global corn and peanut markets; Research and regulatory priorities in the USA; Aerosol mycotoxins: Animal and human health effects; Analysis of an aflatoxin-caused food safety crisis in Hungary: Actors and strategies
Emerging issues in southern Europe: Aflatoxins in ItalyGenomics of mycotoxigenic fungi; Biocompetitive exclusion of toxigenic fungi; The use of GMOs as a prevention strategy for mycotoxin formation; Applications in forecasting deoxynivalenol in wheat using DONcast; Mycotoxin analysis: An overview of classical, rapid and emerging techniques; Multimycotoxin analysis: The LC-MS approach; Immunoaffinity clean-up/fluorescence detection methods for mycotoxins; Standardisation activities in mycotoxin methodology; How to deal with measurement uncertainty in routine mycotoxin determination
Contemporary concepts in the aetiology and prevention of mycotoxicoses in livestock and poultryThe potential of aflatoxin sequestering clay; Study of the adsorption capacity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell wall components toward mycotoxins and the chemical mechanisms involved; Detoxification of mycotoxins by biotransformation; Index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (384 Seiten) Illustrationen, maps
ISBN:9789086865871
9086865879
DOI:10.3920/978-90-8686-587-1

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