Publications by authors named "Nuria Dasi-Navarro"
Human exposure to mycotoxins is a global concern since filamentous fungi can contaminate food and feed from crops to ready-to-eat meals. Human urine biomonitoring is a widely used technique to evaluate mycotoxins exposure, as an alternative to food correlation studies. The aim of this study is to describe human exposure to mycotoxins and to investigate the associated sociodemographic, lifestyle and dietary variables.
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- - Mycotoxin contamination in food is a global health issue, so it's important to monitor human exposure, primarily through urine where these toxins are found.
- - This study aimed to develop and validate a sensitive method using Liquid Chromatography coupled to Quadrupole Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (LC-Q-TOF-MS) to detect ten specific mycotoxins while also identifying others.
- - The researchers employed various extraction methods and settled on a modified QuEChERS technique, achieving good recovery rates for the mycotoxins, and tested the final method on urine samples from women, finding higher levels of specific untargeted mycotoxins.