Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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Mycotoxins Research Laboratory, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Agricultural Research Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran.
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Director and Laboratory Manager Faroogh Life Sciences Research Laboratory
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Toxicology and Pharmacology Department, School of Pharmacy, Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Abstract
Mycotoxins are toxic secondary fungi metabolites and grow in most parts of the world and a variety of agricultural products, including dried fruits and cereals, and the toxic metabolites of fungi (mycotoxins) are responsible for many non-communicable diseases in humans and livestock communities. Many methods for measuring toxins in the food chain have been introduced; thin-layer chromatography (TLC), methods based on gas chromatography (GC), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), mass spectrometry liquid chromatography (LC-MS) have been used for mycotoxins determination, these methods are widely used, but they are expensive, time consumable and besides, the original sample will destroy. Therefore, it is very important to identify mycotoxins in food products, by cheap, simple, fast, and non-destructive alternative methods that can even be used in the field. Infrared spectroscopy has been used in quality control of the food industry as a fast and non-destructive method. The potential of the infrared spectroscopy technique has been investigated for the analysis of Fusariotoxins, Aflatoxins, Ochratoxin A, patulin, etc. Due to the various reports of contamination of agriculture products with mycotoxins in Iran, this article review recent studies on the application of infrared spectroscopy and the measurement of the mycotoxins.
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