Introduction to This Special Issue of : Reduction and Control of Mycotoxins along Entire Food and Feed Chain.

Contamination of food and feed by mycotoxins is considered a significant issue in food and feed safety worldwide [...

Development and Validation of an LC-MS/MS Based Method for the Determination of Deoxynivalenol and Its Modified Forms in Maize.

The Fusarium mycotoxin deoxynivalenol (DON) is a common contaminant of cereals and is often co-occurring with its modified forms DON-3-glucoside (D3G), 3-acetyl-DON (3ADON) or 15-acetyl-DON (15ADON). A stable-isotope dilution liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) based method for their determination in cereals was developed and validated for maize. Therefore, C-labelled D3G was enzymatically produced using C-DON and [CGlc]-sucrose and used as an internal standard (IS) for D3G, while uniformly C labelled IS was used for the other mycotoxins.