Evaluating Mycotoxins in Food Safety: Novel and Traditional Food or Feed Products and New Strategies of Biomonitoring
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Mycotoxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 2078
Special Issue Editor
Interests: food safety; mass spectrometry analysis; proteomics; risk assessment; toxicology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human biomonitoring (HBM) studies are highly useful for evaluating populations’ exposure to food contaminants and are being carried out in increasing numbers all over the world. The use of HBM in a risk assessment of mycotoxins context presents a growing interest as more health-based guidance values (HBGV) in biological matrices are derived, and can be used in a complementary way to the external exposure approaches such as total diet studies or surveillance programs. Rapid and precise analytical devices are essential for biomonitoring food safety and screening of mycotoxins, which may pose substantial health risks on consumption. Significant developments have been made for the detection and analysis of these contaminants. Biosensing technology, with its widespread applicability, is currently applied to addressing the challenges of food production and management, ensuring sustainability, and also to assess the exposure of contaminants as new strategy of biomonitoring. In this Special Issue, we are collecting articles about the presence of mycotoxins in novel food and feed products and biological matrices, and on the other hand, the use of biosensors with promising features like sensitivity, selectivity, specificity, and lower limit of detection. Indeed, they hold immense potential for the development of simple, rapid, accurate, low-cost, portable, and on-site analysis of food, feed, and biological matrices contaminated by mycotoxins.
Prof. Dr. Cristina Juan García
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cereal products
- dry fruits products
- blood
- in vitro
- in vivo
- urine
- mycotoxins
- mass spectrometry
- risk assessment
- biomonitoring
