2008, Volume XII, Issue 1

NEWS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF MYCOTOXICOLOGY

• The Institute of Sciences of Food Production, has organized a one-week workshop entitled Detection Techniques for Mycotoxins and Toxigenic Fungi in the Food Chain.…

Symposia and Conferences

• A three-day scientific seminar, Research Progress and Perspectives on Fusarium Mycotoxins in Cereals, convened in Arcachon, France, September 11–13, 2007.…
• About 100 scientists and technologists from around the world attended the September 2–5, 2007, Safety of Animal Feed and Its Contribution to the Human Food Chain workshop in Glasgow, UK.…

News From International Agencies

• Spring 2007 meetings of the Codex Committee on Contaminants in Food (CCCF) and the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee for Food Additives (JECFA) featured wide-ranging discussions on current and proposed mycotoxin limits.…
• The CCCF’s discussions on ochratoxin A (OTA) focused on proposed codes of practice for controlling its occurrence in coffee, cocoa, and wine. The Committee voted to postpone consideration of a 5 μg/kg maximum limit for OTA in wheat, barley, and rye pending JEFCA’s June opinion on OT A consumption…
• The June JEFCA opinion on OTA recommended retaining the current provisional tolerable weekly intake (PTWI) for ochratoxin A …
• The CCCF discussion paper on maximum limits for deoxynivalenol (DON) proposed revisiting the issue at the end of 2008, when pertinent information on DON’s occurrence in cereals and the influence of processing on DON levels is expected to be available…
• Reports from the April 2007 Beijing meeting and from the 68th JECFA meeting…

REGULATORY NEWS

• The European Commission (EC) amended the maximum levels of Fusarium toxins in maize and maize products…
• Codes of good agricultural practices for the reduction of Fusarium toxins and ochratoxin A (OTA) have been published on the UK Food Standards Agency website…
• Fusarium mycotoxins, such as deoxynivalenol (DON), zearalenone (ZEA), T-2, and HT-2, may occur in cereal crops in the field as a result of Fusariumhead blight (FHB)…

PUBLICATIONS

• Food Additives and Contaminants has published a special issue, entitled Advances in Genomics, Biodiversity, and Rapid Systems for Detection of Toxigenic Fungi and Mycotoxins…

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