RT null T1 Urgent Issues of the Mycotoxins Problem in Kazakhstan A1 United Nations Environment Programme, A2 Sharmanov, T. S. A2 Nikov, P. S. K1 toxic substance K1 fungi K1 food contamination K1 food production K1 mycotoxin PB Centre of International Projects, GKNT YR 1984 FD 1984 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/28950 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/28950 NO Mycotoxins which are poisons produced by microscopic fungi form a vast group of substances which contaminate food products [1,2,3,4,5,6] More than 200 mycotoxins have been isolated from food products and identified as belonging to differing classes of chemical compounds and exerting different effects on an organisms (7,8,9,10). A range of biological actions of mycotoxins have been described including general toxic effects, embryo-toxic, teratogenic, mutagenic, oncogenic and allergising (8, 9,10, 11, 12, 13 , 14). DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 19, 2026