The mycotoxin factbook food & feed topics (Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2006)
"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