Mycotoxins in the food chain

Melinda Kovács

doi:10.31914/aak.2258

Szerzők

Melinda Kovács Kaposvár University Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Mycotoxins in the Food Chain Research Group;MTA-KE-SZIE Mycotoxins in the Food Chain Research Group 7400 Kaposvár, Guba S. street 40., Hungary

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31914/aak.2258

Kulcsszavak:

mycotoxins, climate change, multi-toxic effects

Absztrakt

The paper is the written version of the scientific presentation given on the 17^th meeting of the Alps-Adria Scientific Workshop (on 10 April of 2018 in Hnanice, Czech Republic). Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of fungi, found all around the world as natural contaminants, still unavoidable in the human food chain. This review gives a summary of the occurrence of the most important mycotoxins in Europe, the predicted effect of climate change on their production and the problem of the co-occurrence of these toxins causing multitoxic effects. Experimental results of the research group confirm the complexity of interactions and the fact that interactive effects are hardly predictable.