MYCOTOXINS-CAUSES, PREVENTION AND CONTROL: MATHEMATICAL MODELING STRATEGIES

Abstract

For many decades ago, planting, harvesting, storing, transporting, distributing, and processing agricultural produce into useful products such as foods and feeds have been plagued by various contaminations and spoilages. Most often, these contaminants are fungi and molds-based microbes producing toxic contaminants that result in severe deterioration of some of the quality characteristics of these agro products. These toxic metabolites are called mycotoxin. Many fungi toxic in food and feed are known to be hazardous to human and animal’s health. To prevent the contamination of mycotoxins in foods and feeds, primary, secondary, and tertiary methods are required. Similarly, certain treatments are equally necessary to control the continuous growth of these toxins in the products. This study deals with the review of these various preventive and corrective methods with the view of providing useful insight to the current practices of mitigating the production and contamination of mycotoxins in food and feed products. The study discusses the tendency of an integrated Taguchi model for predicting or studying mycotoxin through the combination of various preventive activities to emerge the optimum preventive procedure.