Occurrence of mycotoxins in milk thistle: to be included in legislation or not?

Autor: Boško R; Research Institute of Brewing and Malting, Mostecká 7, 614 00, Brno, Czech Republic., Pluháčková H; Faculty of AgriSciences, Department of Crop Science, Breeding and Plant Medicine, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00, Brno, Czech Republic., Martiník J; Research Institute of Brewing and Malting, Mostecká 7, 614 00, Brno, Czech Republic.; Department of Biotechnology, University of Chemistry and Technology Prague, Technická 5, 160 00, Prague 6, Prague, Czech Republic., Benešová K; Research Institute of Brewing and Malting, Mostecká 7, 614 00, Brno, Czech Republic., Svoboda Z; Research Institute of Brewing and Malting, Mostecká 7, 614 00, Brno, Czech Republic.; Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 464/118, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic., Běláková S; Research Institute of Brewing and Malting, Mostecká 7, 614 00, Brno, Czech Republic., Pernica M; Research Institute of Brewing and Malting, Mostecká 7, 614 00, Brno, Czech Republic. pernica@beerresearch.cz.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Mycotoxin research [Mycotoxin Res] 2024 Dec 10. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Dec 10.
DOI: 10.1007/s12550-024-00577-8
Abstrakt: The silymarin complex extracted from milk thistle provides significant health benefits, particularly due to its antioxidant and hepatoprotective properties. However, plant substances can be contaminated by a number of fungi types and their secondary metabolites-mycotoxins. This work deals with the determination of aflatoxins and zearalenone and its metabolites in 39 different samples grown in 2020 and 2021. Analysis of mycotoxins was performed by UHPLC-MS/MS after immunoaffinity column AFLAPREP ® and EASI-EXTRACT ® ZEARALENONE clean-up. The presence of aflatoxins was not confirmed in the monitored samples, but 1/3 of the samples were contaminated with zearalenone in the range of 2.8-378.9 µg/kg. Metabolites of zearalenone such as α-zearalenol, α-zearalanol, and β-zearalanol were not detected in any of the samples. β-Zearalenol was found in two samples (2.6 µg/kg and 29.8 µg/kg).
Competing Interests: Declarations. Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
(© 2024. The Author(s) under exclusive licence to Society for Mycotoxin (Research Gesellschaft für Mykotoxinforschung e.V.) and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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