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Yesterday masked, today modified; what do mycotoxins bring next? Cover

Yesterday masked, today modified; what do mycotoxins bring next?

Open Access
|Oct 2018

Abstract

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by toxigenic fungi in crops worldwide. In (micro)organisms such as plants, fungi, bacteria, or animals they may be further metabolised and modified, but this is also true for food processing, which may lead to a wide range of masked mycotoxin forms. These often remain undetected by analytical methods and are the culprits for underestimates in risk assessments. Furthermore, once ingested, modified mycotoxins can convert back to their parent forms. This concern has raised the need for analytical methods that can detect and quantify modified mycotoxins as essential for accurate risk assessment. The promising answer is liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry. New masked mycotoxin forms are now successfully detected by iontrap, time-of-flight, or high-resolution orbitrap mass spectrometers. However, the toxicological relevance of modified mycotoxins has not been fully clarified.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aiht-2018-69-3108 | Journal eISSN: 1848-6312 | Journal ISSN: 0004-1254
Language: English, Croatian, Slovenian
Page range: 196 - 214
Submitted on: Feb 1, 2018
Accepted on: May 1, 2018
Published on: Oct 3, 2018
Published by: Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2018 Marija Kovač, Drago Šubarić, Mateja Bulaić, Tihomir Kovač, Bojan Šarkanj, published by Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health
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