Mycotoxins – an introduction

 

 

Marc E Savard

Eastern Cereals and Oilseeds Research Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

 

 

Abstract

Purpose of review: This review serves as an introduction to mycotoxins, dealing mainly with their history, and contains an extensive list of historical references. The information herein will give the reader some background to the other more specific articles in this issue of Stewart Postharvest Review.

 

Keywords: ergot; aflatoxins; fumonisins; deoxynivalenol; zearalenone; ochratoxin

 

Stewart Postharvest Review 2008, 6:1

Published online 01 December 2008

doi: 10.2212/spr.2008.6.1