Occurrence of Fungi and Mycotoxins in Some Commercial Baby Foods in North Africa

Aidoo, Kofi E.; Mohamed, Shadlia Matug; Candlish, A. A. G.; Tester, Richard F.; Elgerbi, Ali M.

doi:10.4236/fns.2011.27103

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“…Aspergillus and Penicillium were the prevalent genera contaminating baby foods, and these results were in agreement with refs . which found that Aspergillus , Penicillium , Fusarium , Mucor , Cladosporium and Rhizopus were the commonest genera contaminating baby foods.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Infants eat these weaning foods until 24 months . Carbohydrates and proteins are the main components of baby foods, as they are manufactured from cereals (wheat, sorghum, rice, maize, millet and oats), milk, leguminous foods/grains, fruits and nuts so they are appropriate medium for microbial contamination …”

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confidence: 99%

“…Microbial contamination leads to the spread of foodborne pathogens and infant death. Baby food microbial contamination may be a result of the incomplete manufacturing process and lack of knowledge about its preparation …”

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confidence: 99%

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Biocontrol of toxigenic Aspergillus strains isolated from baby foods by essential oils

Yassein

El‐Said

El‐Dawy

2019

Flavour & Fragrance J

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Essential oils are natural antimicrobial agents that can be used to control fungal and mycotoxin contamination. Although there are numerous reports discussing the fungal and mycotoxin contamination of foods, there are few researches on baby food contamination so this work aimed to determine the fungal and mycotoxin contamination in cerelac, cornflakes and milk powder and tried to control the mycotoxigenic strain growth and their production of mycotoxins by using essential oils. Cornflakes were heavily contaminated (24 species including 9 genera), while cerelac and milk powder were less contaminated. Aspergillus and Penicillium were the prevalent genera. The produced aflatoxins and ochratoxins from the tested strains of Aspergillus flavus and A. niger were extracted and estimated by fluorometric method. We used the 18S rRNA sequence technique to identify the genotypes of the three isolates. Two isolates were identified as Aspergillus niger and the third isolate as A. flavus. Omt‐A gene was detected in the A. flavus, while Aopks gene was detected in A. niger isolates. Amongst the five used essential oils, only cumin and peppermint oil depressed the mycotoxigenic strain growth and peppermint oil had the highest result. Its inhibitory effect on aflatoxin and ochratoxin production was evaluated. Aflatoxin production was highly reduced by 52.1%, but ochratoxin inhibition was very low, 4.88% and 3.17% by A. niger obtained from cornflakes and milk powder, respectively. The three tested samples were contaminated by ochratoxins, but cerelac and milk powder samples were free of aflatoxins. Cornflakes sample recorded the highest reading for both toxins.

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Biocontrol of toxigenic Aspergillus strains isolated from baby foods by essential oils

Yassein

El‐Said

El‐Dawy

2019

Flavour & Fragrance J

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“…Diseases due to the consumption of contaminated food with mycotoxins and molds are known worldwide. Grain and milk products are the most sensitive ones to contamination with mycotoxins among foods [71]. In mycotoxicosis cases, consumption of animal products (milk and dairy products, meat and meat products, egg, liver, kidney) has a major role as well as consumption of grain and grain products.…”

Section: Fungal Contaminants and Mycotoxins In Conventional Animal Prmentioning

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“…Even when fungi contamination and variety is high mycotoxin can form less. According to a research in infant foods aflatoxin was detected only in 2.4% (19-70 μg/kg) of specimens despite of high fungus contamination [71]. In the European Union and some other countries accepted limits of AFM1 varies for raw milk is between 0.05 and 10 μg/kg, for dairy products is between 0.02 and 10 μg/kg [70].…”

Section: Fungal Contaminants and Mycotoxins In Conventional Animal Prmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contaminants in Animal Products

Baydan¹,

Kanbur²,

Arslanbaş³

et al. 2017

Livestock Science

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Organic and conventional animal products may include residues of veterinary drugs and environmental contaminant. Food contaminants can cause consumer illness such as allergy, immunosuppression, cancer, teratogenicity, mutagenicity and genotoxicity. Therefore, their control is an important issue in terms of public health. In this article, information is given about contaminants such as bacterial, fungal, metal pesticides and veterinary drug that can be found in organic and conventional animal products. In addition, the effects of various cooking and freezing processes on contaminants in animal foods and their legal regulation have been mentioned.

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Occurrence of toxigenic Aspergillus spp. and aflatoxins in selected food commodities of Asian origin sourced in the West of Scotland

Ruadrew

Craft

Aidoo

2013

Food and Chemical Toxicology

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Occurrence of Fungi and Mycotoxins in Some Commercial Baby Foods in North Africa

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Cited by 10 publications

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Biocontrol of toxigenic Aspergillus strains isolated from baby foods by essential oils

Biocontrol of toxigenic Aspergillus strains isolated from baby foods by essential oils

Contaminants in Animal Products

Occurrence of toxigenic Aspergillus spp. and aflatoxins in selected food commodities of Asian origin sourced in the West of Scotland

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