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Nutritional routes to protection against mycotoxins

Nutritional approaches to reduce the impact of mycotoxins

Published: November 9, 2007
Summary
Mycotoxins are highly toxic secondary products of the metabolism of some fungi mainly belonging to Aspergillus, Penicillium and Fusarium species. A toxic syndrome caused by mycotoxin ingestion in man and animals is referred to as a mycotoxicosis. It has been estimated that at least 300 fungal metabolites are potentially toxic for man and animals, and that as much as 25% of the world’s cereals are...
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Mark Rojek
2 de diciembre de 2012
Please, in the future make your articles available in a PDF format for downloading capabilities. Articles of this nature not only apply to animals but humans as well and can be of great benefit to nutritionists and researchers. Thank you
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