Cold plasma technology is a novel non-thermal technology that has shown promising results for food decontamination and improving food safety. This study is a continuation of a previous investigation of the treatment of AFM-contaminated skim and whole milk samples by HVACP. Previous research has shown HVACP is effective in degrading aflatoxin M (AFM) in milk. The goal of this study is to identify the degradation products of AFM after HVACP treatment in pure water. An HVACP direct treatment at 90 kV using modified air (MA65: 65% O, 30% CO, 5% N) was performed for up to 5 min at room temperature on a 5.0 mL water sample in a Petri dish artificially contaminated with 2 μg/mL of AFM. The degradants of AFM were analyzed and their molecular formulae were elucidated by using high-performance liquid-chromatography time-of-flight mass spectrometry (HPLC-TOF-MS). Three main degradation products were observed and based on mass spectrometric fragmentation pathways, chemical structures for the degradation products were tentatively assigned. According to the structure-bioactivity relationship of AFM, the bioactivity of the AFM samples treated with HVACP was reduced due to the disappearance of the C8-C9 double bond in the furofuran ring in all of the degradation products.

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