Abstract

Some of the secondary metabolites produced by Alternariaspecies have been recognized potentially harmful for humanhealth due to their toxicity and occurrence in foodcommodities. Currently, there are no regulations worldwide forthese mycotoxins with the exception of Bavarian health andfood safety authority who decided to limit at 500 mg/kg thetenuazonic acid content in sorghum/millet-based infant food.The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) performed a riskassessment for four of the known Alternaria mycotoxins(alternariol, alternariol monomethyl ether, tenuazonic acid andtentoxin) and established the threshold for toxicologicalconcern (TTC) for these mycotoxins.In this review recent dataon the biological activity, toxicokinetics, human exposure,modified forms and reduction strategies of the prevalentAlternaria mycotoxins are reported.

Autore Pugliese

• Solfrizzo Michele

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• M. Solfrizzo

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Current Opinion in Food Science

Anno di pubblicazione

2017

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2214-7993

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