Discussion on emergency management of food safety from the perspective of foodborne diseases caused by mycotoxins

Abstract

Mycotoxins exists in foods such as grains, vegetables, fruits, milk, nuts, and meat, which can cause foodborne illnesses seriously harmful to human health. However, people have not paid enough attention to foodborne mycotoxin poisoning. This paper reviews the food in some common mycotoxin cause foodborne disease, the potential danger of mycotoxin contaminated food to human body and other issues related to food science were revealed from the clinical point of view, also concerned with the immunomodulatory effects of mycotoxin and the antitumor properties of patulin, the applicable conditions of several risk assessment models are briefly compared the emergency management measures of food safety problems caused by mycotoxin were also discussed from the perspective of prevention.

Food Security and Foodborne Mycotoxicoses—What Should Be the Adequate Risk Assessment and Regulation?

“…On the other hand, feedstuffs contaminated by mycotoxins contribute to mycotoxin contamination of some food products from animal origin, e.g., milk, dairy products, meat, or eggs, due to the transmission of some mycotoxins from the forages to defined food commodities. This situation may further contribute to the increase in human exposure to mycotoxins [ 4 , 61 , 62 ]. Another circumstance contributing to mycotoxin exposure in humans is their thermal and chemical stability and the minimal loss during thermal treatments or production processing [ 63 ].…”

“…The typical signs in later stages are icterus and cirrhosis of the liver, hydrothorax, and ascites, accompanied by skin thickening near the mouth or neck and papillomatous formations on the mucosal surface of the abomasus, which are characteristic symptoms mainly in cattle. A decrease in body weight gain, immunosuppression, and anaemia [ 7 , 62 , 81 , 82 ] are some additional chronic signs of aflatoxicosis in animals, poultry, or humans, which can be complicated by some other co-contaminating mycotoxins with similar toxicity [ 7 ]. AFB1, together with other mycotoxins, can also induce oedematous changes and is often associated with Kwashiorkor disease in humans [ 71 , 83 ].…”

Food Security and Foodborne Mycotoxicoses–What Should be the Adequate Risk Assessment and Regulation?

“…The typical signs in later stages are icterus and cirrhosis of the liver, hydrothorax, and ascites, accompanied by skin thickening near the mouth or neck and papillomatous formations on the mucosal surface of the abomasus, which are characteristic symptoms mainly in cattle. A decrease in body weight gain, immunosuppression, and anaemia [7,62,81,82] are some additional chronic signs of aflatoxicosis in animals, poultry, or humans, which can be complicated by some other co-contaminating mycotoxins with similar toxicity [7]. AFB1, together with other mycotoxins, can also induce oedematous changes and is often associated with Kwashiorkor disease in humans [71,83].…”

Advances in Aptamer-Based Conjugate Recognition Techniques for the Detection of Small Molecules in Food

“…One is human activities, which result in pesticide residues [ 1 , 2 ], veterinary drug residues [ 3 , 4 , 5 ], and other illegal uses of additives [ 6 , 7 , 8 ]. The other is naturally occurring contaminants, such as toxins produced by fungal metabolism [ 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 ]. Regardless of the type of contaminant, once the residual level exceeds the safe limit, it will lead to serious small molecule contaminant problems, affecting food safety and human health.…”