Food Safety & Mycotoxins

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wu, Aibo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Microbiology.; Food-Biotechnology.; Food Microbiology.; Food Science.

Mycotoxins are increasingly attracting attention at thegovernmental, public and academic level worldwide, due to more frequent and serious contaminations of food and feedstuffs, which pose a serious threat to human health and animal production. This book reviews the latest research on mycotoxins tha...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. Detection
• Chapter 1. Chromogenic platform-based lateral flow immunoassay
• Chapter 2. Sample preparation and chromatographic analysis
• Part 2. Risk assessment
• Chapter 3. Toxicity evaluation using animal and cell models
• Chapter 4. Risk profiling of co-occurring contamination
• Chapter 5. Metabolism of Mycotoxins and the Potential Biomarkers for Risk Assessment
• Part 3. Control
• Chapter 6. Origin of mycotoxin-producing fungal and bacteria species
• Chapter 7. Enzymes for degradation of mycotoxins
• Chapter 8. Confrontation of microbes with mycotoxin-producing strains
• Chapter 9. Chemical and physical treatments for reducing mycotoxin
• Part 4. Summary and prospective
• Chapter 10. Summary and prospective.