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The carcinogenic nature of aflatoxins produced mainly by Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus is of great threat to humans and animals as well as an economic concern especially in tropical and subtropical countries where environmental conditions favor fungal growth. These conditions raises the possibility of contamination of aflatoxin in many agricultural foodstuffs like peanut, cereals, maize grains, and animal feed. Due to their low concentration in food and feeds, detection of aflatoxins in food and animal feeds must require highly sensitive, rapid, specific, portable, and inexpensive technique or device to meet the international maximum residue level (MRL). Several analytical techniques such as chromatography, mass spectrometry, infrared spectroscopy, capillary electrophoresis, immunoassays, and biosensors were used for the detection of aflatoxins. In this chapter, some aspects of aflatoxin occurrence in food and feeds, its current regulations by national and international regulatory bodies, and trends of some rapid and highly sensitive devices for easy detection of aflatoxins in food and feeds were discussed.
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Yakubu, A., Vyas, A. (2020). Aflatoxin: Occurrence, Regulation, and Detection in Food and Feed. In: Singh, J., Vyas, A., Wang, S., Prasad, R. (eds) Microbial Biotechnology: Basic Research and Applications. Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2817-0_15
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