Mycotoxins in Feed, Food, Nutraceuticals, and Functional Food
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Mycotoxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 17297
Special Issue Editors
Interests: bioactive compounds; polyphenols; nutraceuticals; antioxidant activity; high-performance liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; orbitrap approach
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Interests: mycotoxins; antioxidants; bioactive compounds; polyphenols; mass spectrometry; waste and byproduct valorization
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Interests: sample preparation; extraction protocols development; metabolomics; food analysis; nuclear magnetic resonance; high-performance liquid chromatography
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mycotoxins are a class of harmful secondary metabolites produced by fungi belonging to the Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium, and Alternaria genera that could contaminate food and raw materials. Mycotoxins are extremely stable under food and feed processing conditions, posing a serious challenge to the food and feed industry. These toxic compounds have a wide spectrum of harmful human health consequences, including hepatotoxic, carcinogenic, teratogenic, nephrotoxic, and reproductive effects, among others.
To limit exposure to mycotoxins, researchers all around the world are working to find innovative extraction protocols and analytical methods for the rapid detection of mycotoxin contamination in both food and feed supply chains. Managing the risk of mycotoxin contamination in food and feed requires the application of sensitive analytical tools and procedures. Techniques based on high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) coupled with gas chromatography or liquid chromatography for the development of multi-mycotoxin methodologies appear to be the most promising approaches for successfully detecting and quantifying mycotoxins.
In this Special Issue on “Mycotoxins in Feed, Food, Nutraceuticals, and Functional Food”, papers describing the worldwide occurrence of mycotoxins in various commodities are welcome, as are papers on the occurrence and co-occurrence of mycotoxins in human food, nutraceuticals, dietary supplements, and animal feed or relating to novel methodology for the analysis of mycotoxins in food and feed, as well as evaluation of reliable mycotoxins extraction procedures. We look forward to receiving your contributions to this Special Issue in the form of original research, case studies, or review papers, shedding light on perspectives on the occurrence and control of mycotoxins in different commodities and risk assessment.
Dr. Luana Izzo
Dr. Luigi Castaldo
Dr. Mattia Spano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mycotoxins
- food contaminants
- method development
- mass spectrometry
- secondary metabolites
- diet supplements
- occurrence
- retrospective analysis