Mycotoxin detection--Recent trends at global level

• Published in: Journal of Integrative Agriculture Vol. 14; no. 11; pp. 2265 - 2281
• Main Author: Jonathan Nimal Selvaraj, ZHOU Lu, WANG Yan, ZHAO Yue-ju, XING Fu-guo, DAI Xiao-feng, LIU Yang (1International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 2Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural 3College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering china Agricultural University Beijing, P.R.China 4Member of JIA Editorial Board Northwest AF University Yangling, P.R.China)
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Science Press 01.11.2015; Institute of Agro-Products Processing Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Key Laboratory of Agro-Products Processing, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing 100193, P.R.China; KeAi Communications Co., Ltd
• Subjects: aflatoxins; assays; detection; feeds; foods; fumonisins; fungi; high performance liquid chromatography; immunoassays; LC-MS/MS; microarray technology; mycotoxins; mycotoxins aflatoxins ochratoxin zearalenone assays detection; ochratoxin; ochratoxins; secondary metabolites; toxicity; zearalenone; 免疫测定; 检测技术; 次生代谢产物; 赭曲霉毒素; 霉菌毒素污染; 食品系统; 高效液相色谱法; detection; alfatoxins; assays; ochratoxin; zearalenone; mycotoxins
• ISSN: 2095-3119; 2352-3425
• DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(15)61120-0

Mycotoxin contamination in agro-food systems has been a serious concern globally during the last few decades. Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites produced by fungi when they grow in agro-food products and feedstuff. Several detection techniques have been developed in recent years to detect mycotoxins in the food and feed effectively. HPLC based tech- niques are very common in usage in the laboratories for the testing of mycotoxins. In recent years, immuno-based assays is widely used and have been reported at large due to its sensitivity and limited detection time. Immuno assay-based kits were developed effectively to be used in the fields and in storage systems to detect the mycotoxin levels. Microarray-based immunoassays developed in the recent years could simultaneously detect afiatoxin, ochratoxin, and zearalenone with the higher sensitivity. Aptamer-based assays could target the detection of ochratoxin and aflatoxins and fumonisins at high specificity in food products. In recent years, several assays reported for the simultaneous multiple detection of different mycotoxin was based on HPLC and LC-MS/MS. There is a need for the use of these advanced technologies in the com- mercial scale.