This article discusses the misconception among dairy farmers, veterinarians, and feeding advisors that mycotoxins pose little risk to ruminants, particularly dairy cows, due to their degradation in the rumen. It highlights how recent scientific work and practical experience have shown that...

Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is increasingly being used to analyze food crops for quality and safety purposes in a rapid, nondestructive, and eco-friendly manner. The lack of sensitivity and the overlapping absorption characteristics of major sample matrix components, however, often prevent the...

Mycotoxins can occur naturally in a variety of agriculture products, including cereals, feeds, and Chinese herbal medicines (TCMs), via pre- and post-harvest contamination and are regulated worldwide. However, risk mitigation by monitoring for multiple mycotoxins remains a challenge using existing...

We have previously published six esterified O-acyl (EFB1) and three N-acyl fumonisin B₁ derivatives extracted from rice cultures inoculated with Fusarium verticillioides, amongst these the identification of N-palmitoyl-FB1 has been clearly established in a spiking experiment. At that time, it was...

Food safety is a global problem, and methods to reliably and sensitivity detect contaminants could be transformative. Herein, we synthesized a novel Porphyrin NanoMoFs (NanoPCN-223(Fe)) with excellent dispersion and peroxidase-like activity. The K_m value of NanoPCN-223(Fe) was 2.0 × 10^-4 M toward...

Food safety is one of the major problems currently facing the world. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), a quarter of the world's food crop is spoiled by filamentous fungi and thus should be rejected for food safety reasons. Aflatoxins are the most widely ...

Deoxynivalenol (DON) is a mycotoxin that is produced by the Fusarium genus and is widely found in cereal grains such as wheat and corn. Sodium metabisulphite (SMBS) is a promising feed additive in swine farming to mitigate the negative impact caused by DON on animal growth. Here we report on an...

A method was developed for the multi-residue determination of 24 mycotoxins including aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), AFB2, AFG1, AFG2, AFM1, ochratoxin A (OTA), zearalanone, zearalenone, α-zearalanol, β-zearalanol, α-zearalenol, β-zearalenol, T-2 toxin, HT-2 toxin, fumonisin B1 (FB1), FB2, FB3,...

Food safety is the practices that ensure food does not cause harm and food safety hazard is any factor found in food that has potential threat or causes harm to the consumer, by causing injury or illness. Mycotoxins are a significant food safety hazard due to they represent a major threat to human...

This special issue contains 10 articles that discuss, of which 5 are review articles, provide an overview of recent advancements in the development of analytical methods and fabrication of nanomaterial-based sensors for the analysis of food-based toxins. These toxins include pesticides, mycotoxins, ...