Aflatoxin and Food Safety presents the latest information available in aflatoxin research and control.

Features:

• Provides a comprehensive review of aflatoxin research and control
• Considers the worldwide impact of aflatoxins
• Describes recent advances in research on aflatoxin production, analysis, and toxicology
• Examines strategies for controlling aflatoxin production in crops
• Discusses the post-harvest management of aflatoxin in contaminated foods and feeds

Contents

• The Costs of Mycotoxin Management in the United States
• Aflatoxin and Food Safety: Recent African Perspectives
• Aflatoxin and Foods Safety: Recent South American Perspectives
• Aflatoxins in Maize: A Mexican Perspective
• Worldwide Regulations of Aflatoxins
• Ecology and Population Biology of Aflatoxigenic Fungi in Soil
• The Sterigmatocystin Cluster Revisted: Lessons From a Genetic Model
• Unlocking the Secrets Behind Secondary Metabolism: A Review of Aspergillus Fungus From Pathogenicity to Functional Genomics
• Progress in Elucidating the Molecular Basis of the Host Plant-Aspergillus Flavus, Interaction:A Basis for Devising Strategies To Reduce Aflatoxin Contamination in Crops
• Epidemiology of Aflatoxin Exposure and Human Liver Cancer
• Risk of Exposure to and Mitigation of Effects of Aflatoxin in Human Health: A West African Example
• Advances in Sampling and Analysis for Aflatoxins in Food and Animal Feed
• Recent Developments in Immunochemical Methods
• The Case for Monitoring Aspergillus Flavus Aflatoxigenicity for Food Safety Assessment in Developing Countries
• Application of Technology of Gene Expression in Response to Drough Stress and Elimination Of Preharvest Aflatoxin Contamination
• Biological Control of Aflatoxin Crop Contamination
• Breeding Corn to Reduce Preharves Aflatoxin Contamination
• Enhancing Maize with Resistance to Aspergillus Flavus Infection and Aflatoxin Accumulation
• Identifying Sources of Resistance to Aflatoxin and Fumonisin Contamination in Corn Grain
• Techniques Used to Identify Aflatoxin-Resisant Corn
• Marker-Assisted Breeding for Host Resistance to Mycotoxin Contamination
• Prevention of Preharvest Aflatoxin Contamination
• Integration of Crop Management and Genetics in Corn
• BT Corn and Mycotoxin Reduction: An Economic Perspective
• Advances in Reducing Aflatoxin Contamination of U.S. Tree Nuts
• Strategies for Insect Management Targeted Toward Mycotoxin Management
• Chemical Detoxification of Aflatoxins in Food and Feeds.
• Feedborne Mycotoxins in Aquaculture Feeds: Impact and Management of Aflatoxin

Index

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