Mass-Spectrometry-Based Approaches for Mycotoxin Analysis: From Target Detection to Metabolite Discovery
A special issue of Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651). This special issue belongs to the section "Mycotoxins".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 October 2023) | Viewed by 2188
Special Issue Editors
Interests: development and standardization of methods for the analysis of mycotoxins and pesticides in food matrices based on mass spectrometry techniques and immunoassays; the development of targeted and untargeted approaches to plant metabolomics studies based on open-source workflow for data processing and interpretation
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Interests: food safety; food safety policy; development and validation of analytical methods for mycotoxin detection based either on mass spectrometry techniques and immunoassays, including organization of collaborative trials
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mycotoxin contamination is a major problem affecting global food security. Global warming and climate change affect mycotoxin production, leading to the emergence of new and increasingly abundant combinations of mycotoxins in food and feed. Accumulating evidence points towards a range of mycotoxins that are neither routinely analyzed nor regulated by law, including so-called emerging mycotoxins and modified mycotoxins (conjugated forms of mycotoxins generated as a defense mechanism against infected plants or formed during food processing). The co-occurrence of multiple mycotoxins in food is also a growing health concern due to their interaction effects, which have not yet been studied in detail. Finally, the complex biosynthetic processes involved in the production of mycotoxins, which are associated with the interaction between the pathogenic fungi, the host and the environment, are not yet well understood. Mass-spectrometry-based approaches represent a powerful tool to investigate the above-mentioned issues. Mass spectroscopy coupled with liquid chromatography is a valuable tool for the detection and analysis of multi-mycotoxins, which is able to provide information on a wide range of metabolites involved in mycotoxin production. The latest developments in this prove the possibility of detecting not only multiple mycotoxins but also the total metabolic phenotypes in a biological system. Topics of interest in this Special Issue include the development and/or validation of multi-mycotoxin methods based on mass spectrometry coupled to liquid chromatography, the monitoring of multiple mycotoxins in food and feed, metabolomic studies of the fate of mycotoxins in biological systems or food processing, including the identification or characterization of novel toxins or related metabolites.
Dr. Biancamaria Ciasca
Dr. Veronica Maria Teresa Lattanzio
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- mycotoxin occurrence
- emerging and modified mycotoxins
- multi mycotoxins method
- metabolomics
- mass spectrometry
- food safety
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