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Programa de Investigación y Análisis de Residuos y Contaminantes Químicos (PRINARC), Facultad de Ingeniería Química, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santiago del Estero 2654, 3000, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Published: November 2024
AI Article Synopsis
Latin America features diverse climates that support a variety of agricultural products, essential for food consumption.
Fungal species pose a threat to these crops by contaminating them with mycotoxins, which can significantly affect health and productivity.
There is limited research on modified mycotoxins in Latin America, with the review aiming to assess potential human exposure risks to these toxins based on available literature.
Article Abstract
The Latin America region has a considerable extent of varied climate conditions: from tropical, subtropical, and warm temperate to temperate. Among the surface territory, different agricultural products are produced, making them an important food source for human consumption. Fungal species commonly colonize those important agricultural products and often contaminate them with mycotoxins that have a major impact on health, welfare, and productivity. Nowadays, special attention is paid to modified mycotoxins, which are those that cannot be detected by conventional analytical methods. However, little data about their natural occurrence in food and feed is available, especially in Latin American countries, where, among all the countries in this region, only a few of them are working on this subject. Thus, the present review summarizes the published information available in order to determine the possible human exposure risk to these toxins.
