Mycotoxins (ie toxins produced by molds) are fungal metabolites that can contaminate foods and feeds and cause toxic effects in higher organisms that consume the contaminated commodities. Therefore, mycotoxin contamination of foods and feeds results is a serious food safety issue and affects the competitiveness of US agriculture in both domestic and export markets. This article highlights resea...

background: the occurrence of aflatoxin m1 (afm1) in milk, especially breast milk, is a valuable biomarker for ex-posure determination to aflatoxin b1 (afb1). in the present study, the risk of exposure to afm1 in infants fed breast milk was investigated. methods: an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa) was used for the analysis of afm1 in breast milk samples from 132 lactating mothers refe...

The Fusarium genus of fungi is responsible for commercially devastating crop diseases and the contamination of cereals with harmful mycotoxins. Fusarium mycotoxins aid infection, establishment, and spread of the fungus within the host plant. We investigated the effects of the Fusarium mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) on the viability of Arabidopsis cells. Although it is known to trigger apoptosis...

The objective of the present study was to investigate susceptibility maize hybrids natural mycotoxins contamination: aflatoxin total (AFLA), deoxynivalenol (DON), zearalenon (ZEA) and fumonisins (FB). Hybrids were grown during two production years (2019 2020) in locations. Mycotoxin contamination grains evaluated five sweet hybrids. Contamination level investigated first cluster mainly by below...

The EC Quality of Life Programme (QoL), Key Action 1--Food, Nutrition & Health aims at providing a healthy, safe, and high-quality food supply leading to reinforced consumer's confidence in the safety of the European food. Key Action 1 is currently supporting several European projects investigating analytical methods for food control including sensors, risk analysis, and food safety standardisa...

Light sensing is very important for organisms in all biological kingdoms to adapt to changing environmental conditions. It was discovered recently that plant-like phytochrome is involved in light sensing in the filamentous fungus Aspergillus nidulans[1]. Here, we show that phytochrome (FphA) is part of a protein complex containing LreA (WC-1) and LreB (WC-2) [2, 3], two central components of th...

Mycotoxins can increase disease incidence and reduce production efficiency in cattle. They exert their effects through three primary mechanisms: (1) alteration in nutrient content, absorption and metabolism, (2) changes in the endocrine and neuroendocrine function, and (3) suppression of the immune system (CAST, 1989). The resulting nonspecific symptoms may therefore be perplexing and make diag...

Mycotoxin is a worldwide problem threatening animal health and performance as well public health. The objective of this experiment was to test the effect ammonization on elimination common mycotoxins in laying hen compound feed (CF) dairy cattle total mixed ration (TMR). CF for hens TMR cows were contaminated with commonly occurring [aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), ochratoxin A (OTA), zearalenone (ZEA)] a...