Tools for defusing a major global food and feed safety risk: non biological postharvest procedures to decontaminate mycotoxins in foods and feeds

dc.creatorTemba, Benigni A.
dc.creatorSultanbawa, Yasmina
dc.creatorKriticos, Darren J.
dc.creatorFox, Glen P.
dc.creatorHarvey, Jagger J. W.
dc.creatorFletcher, Mary T.
dc.date2021-07-26T16:27:44Z
dc.date2021-07-26T16:27:44Z
dc.date2016
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-25T08:52:59Z
dc.date.available2022-10-25T08:52:59Z
dc.descriptionJ. Agric. Food Chem., V. 64, pp.8959−8972
dc.descriptionMycotoxin contamination of foods and animal feeds is a worldwide problem for human and animal health. Controlling mycotoxin contamination has drawn the attention of scientists and other food and feed stakeholders all over the world. Despite best efforts targeting field and storage preventive measures, environmental conditions can still lead to mycotoxin contamination. This raises a need for developing decontamination methods to inactivate or remove the toxins from contaminated products. At present, decontamination methods applied include an array of both biological and nonbiological methods. The targeted use of nonbiological methods spans from the latter half of last century, when ammoniation and ozonation were first used to inactivate mycotoxins in animal feeds, to the novel techniques being developed today such as photosensitization. Effectiveness and drawbacks of different nonbiological methods have been reported in the literature, and this review examines the utility of these methods in addressing food safety. Particular consideration is given to the application of such methods in the developing world, where mycotoxin contamination is a serious food safety issue in staple crops such as maize and rice.
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dc.identifierhttps://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/3775
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/93207
dc.languageen
dc.publisherAmerican Chemical Society
dc.subjectDecontamination
dc.subjectFeeds
dc.subjectFoods
dc.subjectFungi
dc.subjectMycotoxins
dc.titleTools for defusing a major global food and feed safety risk: non biological postharvest procedures to decontaminate mycotoxins in foods and feeds
dc.typeArticle

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