Aflatoxins in Food and Feed
Received Date: May 02, 2022 / Published Date: May 27, 2022
Abstract
Aflatoxins (AFs) are polyketide-derived; cancer causing toxic fungal metabolites (mycotoxins) produced by filamentous fungal species Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus parasiticus, Aspergillus pseudocaelatus, Aspergillus pseudonomius and rarely Aspergillus nomius in/on foods and feeds, exclusively in field corn and peanuts. AFs frequently contaminate agricultural commodities and thus pose serious health hazards to plants, humans and domestic animals. AFs are “natural” contaminants of foods, their formation is unavoidable and it’s very important to detoxify chemically or physically crops of foods that are contaminated by toxins in ways that retain their edibility. This review focuses on the most important detection methods of Aflatoxin (AF) fungi and quantification of their toxic products which are threated to humans, animals and crops
Citation: Patel A (2022) Aflatoxins in Food and Feed. Toxicol 天美传媒 Access 8: 179. Doi: 10.4172/2476-2067.1000179
Copyright: © 2022 Patel A. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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