This study demonstrates a new extraction method for determination of aflatoxins (AFs) in food samples by a GO-SiO/ZnO/FeO nanocomposite as new and effective sorbent. The nanocomposite structure was confirmed by FT-IR, XRD, EDX, FE-SEM, TEM, and mapping techniques. Optimization of the extraction process was conducted by investigating pH, adsorbent amount, sample volume, and solvent volume using central composite design (CCD). The method showed good linearity for AFs B, B, G, and G within specified ranges. Detection and quantification limits were 0.06-0.53 and 0.20-1.62 ng mL, respectively. The high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detector assisted by solid phase extraction (SPE-HPLC-FLD) method was applied to food samples, achieving recoveries of 70.15-97.08 %. Accuracy was confirmed through recovery measurements in spiked samples, with ranges of 70.15-97.85 % in wheat, 70.01-91.97 % in chickpeas, and 71.29-93.92 % in white pepper. Reusability and cost-effectiveness suggest its potential for preconcentration and determination of AFs in food samples.
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Microbiome
January 2025
National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, 102206, China.
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Anim Microbiome
January 2025
Division of Nutritional Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA.
The gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota plays a crucial role in host health and disease in dogs, but the knowledge regarding the mucosal associated microbiota along the GI tract is limited in dogs. Therefore, the objective of this study was to characterize the phylogeny and predicted functional capacity of microbiota residing on the gut mucosa across five GI regions of healthy young adult and geriatric dogs fed different diets. Twelve weanling (8 weeks old) and 12 senior (11.
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January 2025
Biochemistry Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia.
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February 2025
Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Keio University, Tsuruoka, Japan.
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Federal Research Centre of Nutrition, Biotechnology, and Food Safety, Moscow, Russia.
Micromycetes from the genus Alternaria are commonly found in plant food raw materials, and their produced emerging mycotoxins (EMT) pose a risk to human health. Based on polyphase taxonomy, we studied the species composition of the Alternaria spp. population in samples of Russian grain and berries; non-toxinogenic species of Alternaria of the Infectoriae section and toxinogenic species of the Alternaria section were found.
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