1. First study on trichothecene and zearalenone exposure of the Romanian population through wheat-based products consumption
- Author
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Felicia Loghin, Cristina Juan, Oana Stanciu, Doina Miere, Jordi Mañes, and Houda Berrada
- Subjects
Fusarium ,Food Handling ,Population ,Trichothecene ,Adult population ,Food Contamination ,Biology ,Toxicology ,Risk Assessment ,01 natural sciences ,Diacetoxyscirpenol ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0404 agricultural biotechnology ,Humans ,Food science ,education ,Mycotoxin ,Zearalenone ,Triticum ,education.field_of_study ,Romania ,Dietary exposure ,010401 analytical chemistry ,04 agricultural and veterinary sciences ,General Medicine ,biology.organism_classification ,040401 food science ,0104 chemical sciences ,chemistry ,Trichothecenes ,Food Science - Abstract
In this study, a dietary exposure assessment of mycotoxins was conducted for the Romanian population using the contamination data of a various categories of wheat-based products for direct human consumption. Wheat-based foods (n = 181) commercialized in Romania, including flour, bread, biscuits, breakfast cereals and pasta, were evaluated by GC-QqQ-MS/MS for the occurrence of deoxynivalenol (DON), 3-acetyldeoxynivalenol (3AcDON), 15-acetyldeoxynivalenol (15AcDON), fusarenon-X, nivalenol, HT-2 and T-2 toxins, diacetoxyscirpenol, neosolaniol and zearalenone (ZEA). DON and 15AcDON were detected in 63 and 5% of all the analyzed samples, whereas 13-AcDON, HT-2, T-2, NIV and ZEA were not detected. Exposure of Romanian adult population was assessed, the EDIs for the sum of DON+3AcDON+15AcDON were 669 ng kg−1 bw day−1 at low-bound estimation, and 690 ng kg−1 bw day−1 at upper-bound estimation, being lower than the TDI set (1000 ng kg−1 bw day−1).
- Published
- 2018