This report represents the conclusions of a Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee convened to evaluate the safety of various contaminants or groups of contaminants in food. The first part of the report contains a brief description of general considerations addressed at the meeting, including updates on matters of interest to the work of the Committee. A summary follows of the Committee’s evaluations o...

Introduction Cancer of the oesophagus (OC) follows the increasing incidence of cancer worldwide. There is a high incidence in the black population in certain parts of Transkei, South Africa and in parts of China; both have increased in recent times. Maize is the staple food of the population of Transkei. Fumonisins are mycotoxins produced by Fusarium verticillioides and other Fusarium fungi, fo...

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Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites of fungi that contaminate a large variety of foods and have toxic effects on humans. The best protection against mycotoxins is to monitor their presence in food. This paper shows the screening results of mycotoxins present in 76 samples of different groups of grain foods. Samples of grain food were analyzed for contamination with aflatoxins, ochratoxin...

A variety of toxic secondary metabolites including fumonisins, can be produced by the fungus Fusarium moniliforme and closely related species in section Liseola in large amounts (g/kg in laboratory cultures). Underivatized fumonisins were detected by HPLC using either an evaporative light scattering detector or electrospray MS. Electrospray MS used together with NMR and GC/MS was used to identi...

Fusarium proliferatum as well F. oxysporum are pathogens with a broad host range that includes garlic (Allium sativum). The losses of due to these increased over the last years. Especially was identified several times main cause postharvest dry rot. This species is also known produce mycotoxins, especially fumonisins. In this study, we aimed identify and study phylogeny diversity in planting st...

Abstract Mycotoxin contamination of maize often raises risks for human and animal health. The most frequently detected mycotoxins in are trichothecenes, fumonisins, aflatoxin. A total number 17,011 samples were tested by SGS their mycotoxin content between 2012 2017. toxin results clearly show that the southern areas country had higher levels than average. According to dataset, aflatoxin has be...