Journal
CRITICAL REVIEWS IN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION
Volume 57, Issue 15, Pages 3208-3217Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/10408398.2015.1106440
Keywords
Aflatoxins; microbial degradation; decontamination; biodegradable products; toxicity
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- Global Excellence Scheme (GES) Fellowship of the University of Johannesburg (UJ)
- National Research Foundation (NRF) Center of Excellence (CoE) in Food Security
- University of Western Cape (UWC), South Africa
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Aflatoxin (AF) contamination presents one of the most insidious challenges to combat, in food safety. Its adulteration of agricultural commodities presents an important safety concern as evident in the incidences of its health implication and economic losses reported widely. Due to the overarching challenges presented by the contamination of AFs in foods and feeds, there is an urgent need to evolve cost-effective and competent strategies to combat this menace. In our review, we tried to appraise the cost-effective methodsfor decontamination of AFs. We identified the missing links in adopting microbial degradation as a palliative to decontamination of AFs and its commercialization in food and feed industries. Cogentareas of further research were also highlighted in the review paper.
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