Rapid Detection of Mycotoxin Contamination 2.0
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Mycotoxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2023) | Viewed by 11028
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Interests: environmental and food safety; organic microcontaminants (pesticide residues and mycotoxins); environmental analysis; agricultural ecotoxicology; genetic safety
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Dear Colleagues,
Upon the success of our previous Special Issue, Rapid Detection of Mycotoxin Contamination (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/toxins/special_issues/Detection_Mycotoxin_Contamination), which was launched at the end of 2018 and completed at the end of 2020, we would like to continue to cover the topic with reports of upcoming developments in the field.
Mycotoxin contamination in crops and subsequent mycotoxin contamination in food and feed is currently a major concern in environmental and food safety, affecting both crop production and animal husbandry. In turn, the rapid detection of mycotoxin levels in food, feed, and other biological and environmental matrices is of key importance both in mycotoxin monitoring and in exposure assessment.
A newly identified and emerging matrix for mycotoxin contamination is surface and drinking water, where mycotoxins can emerge upon the infestation of toxinogenic fungi, upon leaching from infested soil as water runoff from agriculture, or upon washing out from contaminated agricultural commodities. In turn, mycotoxins may present threats for drinking water quality, and their analysis in aqueous environments is therefore also emphasized.
Mycotoxin occurrence in produce is mostly due to improper harvest or storage conditions that favour the emergence of toxinogenic fungi (e.g., Fusarium, Penicillium, Aspergillus and other species). Target mycotoxins include the most hazardous aflatoxins, trichothecenes (e.g., T-2, deoxynivalenol), resorcilactones (e.g., zearalenone), fumonisins and ochratoxins, as well as recently identified compounds such as sterigmatocystin, moniliformin and others. Meteorological conditions prior to harvest strongly affect fungal growth and mycotoxin production; climate change also exerts its impacts, as toxinogenic fungal strains may now emerge in climatic zones they could not previously colonise.
Our Special Issue of Toxins aims to summarise the importance of mycotoxin detection in various matrices by reporting diverse aspects, hopefully covering a wide range of applications, including but not limited to:
- Monitoring the occurrence of mycotoxins in crops and produce as related to meteorological conditions, including the assessment of the potential effects of climate change trends on mycotoxin occurrence;
- A particular issue related to the above point is the general and repeatedly refuted allegation of ecological farming of being a source of mycotoxin contamination due to prohibition of the use of synthetic fungicides, therefore, submission of comparative monitoring studies of mycotoxins in conventional and ecological agriculture are welcome;
- Decomposition of mycotoxins in biological matrices due to the effects of natural or artificially accelerated enzymatic conditions;
- Effect-based monitoring of mycotoxins in affected animals, as well as veterinary mycotoxin analyses;
- Assessment of mycotoxin decontamination methods aiming to suppress emerging mycotoxin poisoning;
- Novel or inventive methods of mycotoxin analysis including chromatography, immunoassay, molecular biology, sensorics and other means, including novel sample preparation methods (e.g., QuEChERS, immunoaffinity pre-purification);
- Methods of toxicological or ecotoxicological assessment, including cytotoxicity, genotoxicity, mutagenicity and endocrine disruption, combined with chemical analysis.
Prof. Dr. András Székács
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- mycotoxin analysis
- monitoring
- decomposition
- metabolism
- decontamination
- instrumental analysis
- immunoanalysis
- sensorics
- ecotoxicological assessment
- cytotoxicity
- genotoxicity
- mutagenicity
- endocrine disruption
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