title: Tools for Defusing a Major Global Food and Feed Safety Risk: Nonbiological Postharvest Procedures To Decontaminate Mycotoxins in Foods and Feeds.
abstract: Mycotoxin contamination of foods and animal feeds is a worldwide problem for human and animal health. Controlling mycotoxin contamination has drawn the attention of scientists and other food and feed stakeholders all over the world. Despite best efforts targeting field and storage preventive measures, environmental conditions can still lead to mycotoxin contamination. This raises a need for developing decontamination methods to inactivate or remove the toxins from contaminated products. At present, decontamination methods applied include an array of both biological and nonbiological methods. The targeted use of nonbiological methods spans from the latter half of last century, when ammoniation and ozonation were first used to inactivate mycotoxins in animal feeds, to the novel techniques being developed today such as photosensitization. Effectiveness and drawbacks of different nonbiological methods have been reported in the literature, and this review examines the utility of these methods in addressing food safety. Particular consideration is given to the application of such methods in the developing world, where mycotoxin contamination is a serious food safety issue in staple crops such as maize and rice.
authors.affiliation: Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland , Health and Food Sciences Precinct, Coopers Plains, QLD 4108, Australia.|Sokoine University of Agriculture , P.O. Box 3000, Morogoro, Tanzania.
authors.forename: Benigni A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Temba
authors.affiliation: Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland , Health and Food Sciences Precinct, Coopers Plains, QLD 4108, Australia.
authors.forename: Yasmina
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sultanbawa
authors.affiliation: CSIRO , GPO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.|School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland , St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia.
authors.forename: Darren J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Kriticos
authors.affiliation: Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland , Health and Food Sciences Precinct, Coopers Plains, QLD 4108, Australia.
authors.forename: Glen P
authors.initials: GP
authors.lastname: Fox
authors.affiliation: Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland , Health and Food Sciences Precinct, Coopers Plains, QLD 4108, Australia.|Biosciences eastern and central Africa-International Livestock Research Institute (BecA-ILRI) Hub , Nairobi 00100, Kenya.|Feed the Future Innovation Lab for the Reduction of Post-Harvest Loss, Kansas State University , Manhattan, Kansas 66506, United States.
authors.forename: Jagger J W
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Harvey
authors.affiliation: Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI), The University of Queensland , Health and Food Sciences Precinct, Coopers Plains, QLD 4108, Australia.
authors.forename: Mary T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Fletcher
mesh_terms: D000821:Animal Feed / Q000032:analysis* / Q000382:microbiology; D000818:Animals; D018556:Crops, Agricultural; D003666:Decontamination / Q000379:methods*; D005506:Food Contamination / Q000032:analysis*; D005516:Food Microbiology; D059022:Food Safety; D006801:Humans; D009183:Mycotoxins / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D009183:Mycotoxins
keywords: decontamination; feeds; foods; fungi; mycotoxins