Mycotoxicoses are acute and chronic poisonings caused by mould toxins called mycotoxins. Although acute mycotoxicoses, caused by high mycotoxin levels in food are rare nowadays, they need to be described in order to inform physicians and other health care workers about their symptoms. Children are more sensitive to mycotoxins because of their lower body mass, higher metabolic rate, and underdev...

To date, we do not know how to detoxify chemically or physically crops and foods that are contaminated by mycotoxins in ways that retain their edibility. Our safety, therefore, relies on our ability to detect, quantify and avoid them. Because most of the people and animals under threat by mycotoxins live in thirdworld countries, the fast, simple to perform and interpret, and inexpensive, yet se...

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by fungi, which may be present on a variety of crops. They are considered a major issue worldwide because of their harmful effects on animals. These contaminants lead to great economic losses, especially in pig and poultry husbandry. Over 400 mycotoxins have been identifi ed. However, only few of them have a signifi cant toxic effect and are of majo...

Mycotoxins are metabolites of moulds that may be found in food and feed of plant and animal origin. This paper gives a short review of the agronomical methods and food and feed storage recommendations for the prevention of mould contamination. It describes the practical methods of feed decontamination and the use of feed additives where mycotoxin contamination prevention has failed. However, th...

Plants in general, edible plants and legumes in particular commonly synthesized a range of secondary metabolites as part of their protection against attack by herbivores, insects and pathogens. Such secondary metabolites identified as antinutritional factors (ANF's) and naturally occurred as means to survive in adverse growing conditions. The term antinutritional refers to defense metabolites h...

Motivations Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) is an ensemble of developmental disorders impacting on the social relationships, the development of the language and of interpersonal communications and the behaviour of affected people. A number of factors have been supposed to cause ASD, including a direct genetic component (accounting for less than 10% of cases), epigenetics and environmental fact...

BACKGROUND Secondary metabolites produced by Fusarium fungi frequently contaminate food and feed and have adverse effects on human and animal health. Fusarium mycotoxins exhibit a wide structural and biosynthetic diversity leading to different toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics. Several studies investigated the toxicity of mycotoxins, focusing on very specific targets, like the brain. However, i...

BACKGROUND Both O157 and non-O157 Shiga toxin - producing Escherichia coli (STECs) cause serious human disease outbreaks through the consumption of contaminated foods. Cattle are considered the main reservoir but it is unclear how STECs affect mature animals. Neonatal calves are the susceptible age class for STEC infections causing severe enteritis. In an earlier study, we determined that mycot...

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