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T1 Mycotoxins: Historical Background and Present-Day Notions
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 
K1 toxic substance
K1 toxicology
K1 fungi
K1 health
K1 animal health
K1 food contamination
K1 mycotoxin
PB Centre of International Projects, GKNT
YR 1984
FD 1984
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/28096
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/28096
NO Mycotoxins secondary metabolites of microscopic fungi- are classed with the most dangerous contaminants of food products and fodders which occur in natural conditions. Mycotoxins are distinguished by high toxicity and many of them possess mutagenic, teratogenic, and carcinogenic properties. At present we know more than 250 species of various microscopic (mould) fungi which produce approximately 100 metabolites of varying toxicity giving rise to alimentary toxicity of man and farm animals. The facts accumulated in recent decades land themselves to a conclusion about universal spread both of mycotoxin producers and of toxins proper. There are all grounds to believe that the number of isolated mycotoxins will continue to grow with further study of the role of toxin-forming microscopic fungi in alimentary toxicoses of man and animals of unestablished etiology.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 21, 2026