Woodhead Publishing Determining Mycotoxins and Mycotoxigenic Fungi in Food and Feed (Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition)

Mycotoxin contamination remains a significant concern for both the food processing and animal feed industries. With contributions from leading experts, this book reviews key topics in the determination of mycotoxins and mycotoxigenic fungi in food and feed. The first part of the book contains chapters on sampling for mycotoxins and methods of sample preparation and clean-up. Following chapters outline methods for mycotoxin determination, with additional contributions on quality assurance and official methods. Part three reviews biomarkers for mycotoxins and part four focuses on determining mycotoxigenic fungi. Final chapters cover novel methods for mycotoxin analysis, such as biosensors. Key Features: focuses on the essentials of mycotoxin determination, covering sampling, sample preparation, clean-up and key determination techniques; documents quality assurance and official methods and performance criteria for determining mycotoxins in food and feed; explores the processes of determining mycotoxigenic fungi in food and feed including the identification of genes and gene clusters. Contents: Part 1 Determining mycotoxins in food and feed: Sampling strategies to control mycotoxins; Sample preparation and clean up for mycotoxin analysis: Principles, applications and recent developments; Chromatographic separation techniques for determination of mycotoxins in food and feed; Mass spectrometry in multi-mycotoxin and fungal spore analysis; Immunochemical methods for rapid mycotoxin detection in food and feed. Part 2 Quality Assurance and official methods for determining mycotoxins in food and feed: Official methods and performance criteria for determining mycotoxins in food and feed; Ensuring the quality of results from food control laboratories: Laboratory accreditation, method validation and measurement uncertainty. Part 3 Development and analysis of biomarkers for mycotoxins: Developing biomarkers of human exposure to mycotoxins; Developing mechanism-based and exposure biomarkers for mycotoxins in animals. Part 4 Determining mycotoxigenic fungi in food and feed: Rationale for a polyphasic approach in the identification of mycotoxigenic fungi; Molecular identification of mycotoxigenic fungi in food and feedstuffs; Identification of genes and gene clusters involved in mycotoxin synthesis; DNA barcoding of mycotoxigenic fungi: a perspective. Part 5 Emerging methods for mycotoxin analysis in food and feed: Emerging bio-sensing methods for mycotoxin analysis; Masked mycotoxins in food and feed: challenges and analytical approaches; Spectroscopic techniques for fungi and mycotoxin detection.