Determining mycotoxins and mycotoxigenic fungi in food and feed

• Other Authors: De Saeger, Sarah
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK : Woodhead Publishing, 2011.
• Series: Woodhead Publishing in food science, technology, and nutrition ; no. 203.
• Subjects: Mycotoxins > Analysis.; Toxigenic fungi > Identification.; Food > Microbiology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781613440278; 1613440278; 1845696743; 9781845696740
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 427 pages) : illustrations.

Mycotoxins - toxic secondary metabolites produced by mycotoxigenic fungi - pose a significant risk to the food chain. Indeed, they may be the most hazardous of all food contaminants in terms of chronic toxicity and legislative limits on their levels in food and feed continue to be developed worldwid...