title: Mycotoxin detection.
abstract: Mycotoxins are toxic metabolites of certain fungi that growth on a variety of crops, pre-harvest, during and post-harvest. Because of their toxicity, maximum admissible levels of mycotoxins are regulated worldwide and monitoring of their occurrence in several commodities is mandatory for assuring food safety and consumers' health protection. Analytical methods for mycotoxins include immunochemical-based techniques that principally apply for routinely controls and rapid, on-site detection, and chromatographic-based techniques that provide sensitive, accurate and selective determination of known mycotoxins, besides identification of new or modified compounds through tandem mass spectrometric detectors.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, Via Giuria, 5, I-10125 Turin, Italy. Electronic address: laura.anfossi@unito.it.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Anfossi
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, Via Giuria, 5, I-10125 Turin, Italy.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Giovannoli
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, Via Giuria, 5, I-10125 Turin, Italy.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Baggiani
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002845:Chromatography / Q000379:methods; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D009183:Mycotoxins / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D009183:Mycotoxins