Levels of mycotoxins and sample cytotoxicity of selected organic and conventional grain-based products purchased from Finnish and Italian markets
✍ Scribed by Marika Jestoi; Maria Carmela Somma; Merja Kouva; Pirjo Veijalainen; Aldo Rizzo; Alberto Ritieni; Kimmo Peltonen
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 441 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1613-4125
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
The contamination levels of 16 different Fusarium‐ and Aspergillus‐mycotoxins were chemically determined from randomly selected organic and conventional grain‐based products purchased from Finnish and Italian markets. The cytotoxicity of the samples was analyzed with an in vitro test using feline fetal lung cells. Overall, the concentrations of the mycotoxins studied were low in all of the samples. Enniatins B and B1 as well as deoxynivalenol were the most predominant mycotoxins in the samples, being present in 97%, 97%, and 90% of the samples, respectively. The geographical origin or the agricultural practice had no influence on the mycotoxin concentrations of the samples. The babyfoods included in the samples had significantly lower concentrations of mycotoxins than the other products with a mean total mycotoxin content of 47 μg/kg compared with 99 μg/kg for the other kinds of food. All the samples evoked toxicity in the in vitro test, but no correlation between cytotoxicity and the mycotoxin concentrations was observed.