Aflatoxin microbial detoxification

This aspect includes the involvement of microorganisms to detoxify aflatoxins. On the basis of the types of microorganisms involved and the methods through which they detoxify aflatoxins, microbial detoxification approaches can be grouped into the following three categories ... 

Finally, biological detoxification or biotransformation, or degradation of mycotoxins, especially aflatoxin by microbial systems to a metabolite(s) that is... 

Because it is impossible to completely avoid some degree of aflatoxin contamination, a variety of strategies for their detoxification in foodstuffs have been proposed. These strategies have included physical methods of separation, thermal inactivation, irradiation, solvent extraction, adsorption from solution, microbial inactivation, chemical methods of inactivation and fermentation. Two of these strategies are described in more detail below. 

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