Mycotoxins News
News published on June 12, 2020:
Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, announces that it has reached agreement to acquire Erber Group for an enterprise value of €980m. The value of the tr...
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https://www.dsm.com/corporate/news/
News published on June 9, 2020:
Developing countries that export food internationally are increasingly aware of the need for sound food safety programmes that are in line with international standards.
To mitigate this threat, the first Aflat...
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https://world-news-monitor.com/
News published on June 9, 2020:
Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi and the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), along with USAID Mission Director Joakim Parker, have launched a nationwide campaign to combat afl...
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https://www.busiweek.com/u
News published on June 4, 2020:
A team of researchers from several institutions in China, one in the U.S. and one in Israel, has found a protective gene in wild wheatgrass that shows promise in stopping fusarium head blight in wheat and bar...
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https://phys.org/news/
News published on May 13, 2020:
EFSA has published a scientific opinion on public health risks related to the presence of ochratoxin A (OTA) in food – a mycotoxin naturally produced by moulds that can be found in a variety of foodstuf...
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https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/news/
News published on April 2, 2020:
The struggle for living space concerns not only people and animals but can refer also to molds. When mold (fungi) contaminated the food in case of bad environment for its development it states to produce second...
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https://phys.org/
News published on April 2, 2020:
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is seeking feedback from interested parties on its scientific opinion about public health risks related to the presence of Ochratoxin A (OTA) in food – a mycotoxi...
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https://www.efsa.europa.eu/
News published on April 2, 2020:
SASKATOON – Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan (USask) Crop Development Centre (CDC) have developed a fast and accurate method for identifying and quantifying toxins in fusarium-infected cere...
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https://agbio.usask.ca/news/
News published on April 2, 2020:
In Senegal, groundnut and maize are commonly contaminated with highly toxic, cancer-causing chemicals called aflatoxins, which are produced by fungi in the genus Aspergillus when they infect crops. The main afl...
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https://phys.org/
News published on October 8, 2019:
Mycotoxins impair animal health, welfare and performance. These toxins are difficult to monitor and tools assessing both the risk in feed and the exposure impact in animals can contribute greatly in helping the...