The multi-mycotoxin occurrence for internal and superficial fungi contamination were comprehensively assessed in medicinal seeds used as food or beverage. Based on a polyphasic approach using morphological characters, β-tubulin and ITS gene blast, a total of 27 species belonging to 12 genera were identified from surface-sterilized seeds. Chaetomium globosporum was most predominant (23%), follow...

1 Institute of Oncology, 6 Plovdivsko Pole, Sofia Darvenitza, Bulgaria 2 Unit of Gene-Environment Interactions, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France, Consultant, Les Collanges, 07240 Saint Jean Chambre, France 3 Laboratoire de Toxicologie et Sécurité Alimentaire, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Agronomie, Avenue de l'Agrobiopole, BP 107,...

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is an important mycotoxin with potential to reach the human food chain through carry-over of contaminated, mostly cereal-based, feed into animal-derived products. Certain population groups, such as infants and children, are intensive and relatively restricted consumers of some animal-derived products, particularly milk and other dairy products, which may become contaminated w...

Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a nephrotoxic and potentially carcinogenic mycotoxin produced by several species of Aspergillus and Penicillium. It is one of the major mycotoxins contaminating grain, grapes and a variety of food products, and the development of methods for reducing pre- and post-harvest contamination has drawn considerable attention. In the current study, we isolated and sequenced the ge...

Malaysia has begun to locally mass-cultivate grain corn reduce import dependency for animal feed industries. Since the Malaysian tropical climate constantly exposes fungal colonization and mycotoxin production by mycotoxigenic species, it is, therefore, important investigate presence of especially strains in agroecosystem. In present work, kernel, tassel, plant debris, soil were collected from ...

Between January 2009 and December 2011, a total of 7049 corn, soybean/soybean meal, wheat, dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) and finished feed samples were analyzed for the occurrence of aflatoxins (Afla), zearalenone (ZEN), deoxynivalenol (DON), fumonisins (FUM) and ochratoxin A (OTA). Samples were sourced in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Afla, ZEN, DON, FUM and OTA were present re...

UNLABELLED The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of different caffeine concentrations (0-4%) on (i) lag phase prior to growth, (ii) growth rates and (iii) ochratoxin A (OTA) production by strains from the Aspergillus section Circumdati and Aspergillus section Nigri groups, isolated from coffee, when grown on a conducive medium at 0·98 water activity and 30°C. The lag phases pri...

At a number of slaughters nephropathy and high ochratoxin A contents in kidneys have been observed in fattening pigs from two Swedish farms. In one herd the source of contamination was barley grown on the home farm and stored under such conditions that the growth of fungal species (Penicillium verrucosum var. verrucosum) producing ochratoxin A occurred, with the subsequent formation of the toxi...

Automatic and manual sampling for ochratoxin A (OTA) in barley grain was compared under industrial conditions considering sampling uncertainty as well as practical and technical aspects. Ten tonnes of barley inoculated with Penicillium verrucosum were incubated until the OTA concentration reached approximately 15 µg kg(-1) and sampled with manual and automatic sampling. A nested experimental de...