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UK Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food and Flealth and Safety Executive, Annual Report of the Working Party on Pesticide Residues in Food (1997), MAFF Publications, London, 1997. lARC, Monographs on the Evabiation of the Carcinogenic Risk of Chemicals to Hnmans Volume 56 Some Naturally Occurring Substances Food Items and Constituents, Heterocyclic Aromatic Amines and Mycotoxins, WFIO, Geneva, 1979, p. 397. 

Assessment of whether a chemical has the potential to cause adverse effects in humans arises usually from direct observation of an effect in animals or humans, such as the acute poisoning episodes that have occurred when potatoes contain high levels of glycoalkaloids. Epidemiological studies have also been used to infer a possible relationship between intake of a particular type of food, or constituent of that food, and the potential to cause an adverse effect. Such observations led to the characterisation of the aflatoxins as human carcinogens. However, natural toxic substances that occur in plant foods have often been identified through observations in animals, particularly farm animals. It was observations of adverse effects in farm animals that led to the further characterisation of the phytoestrogens and the mycotoxins. In other instances, the concern arises from the chemical similarity to other known toxins. 

Many natural products are charged substances, and can be isolated by IEC methods. Dufresne has published a comprehensive review describing various resins and column operating conditions applicable to purification of natural products from fermentation broths or crude extracts.168 Among natural products, antibiotics are of special interest due to their widespread use in humans and animals. Sample cleanup by IEC prior to analysis by other LC methods for quantitative determination of antibiotics in biological fluids is frequent.I69171 Also, IEC followed by TLC appears useful for the quantitation of fumonisin Bl, a mycotoxin found in agricultural products.172... 

The described procedure has been widely used by Smith III and coworkers [250] in the efficient total synthesis of natural products containing extended 1,3-hydroxylated chains. This architecture is often found as a structural element in polyene macrolide antibiotics [251] such as mycotoxin A and B, dermostatin, and roxaticin. The Smith group used the above-mentioned approach (e. g., as five-component coupling) for the synthesis of the pseudo-C2-symmetric trisacetonide (+)-2-471 [252], which was employed by Schreiber and coworkers [253] within the synthesis of (+)-mycotoxin A (2-470a) (Scheme 2.108). Thus, lithiation of 2.5 equiv. dithiane 2-462b followed by treat-... 

The natural product verrucofortine, 282, contains a pyrrolopyrrolopyrazine structural unit. This compound is a major metabolite of Penicillium verrucosum var. cyclopium, the fungus that produces the mycotoxin verrucosidin < 1988JNP66>. 

Chelkowski J and Perkowski J (1992), Mycotoxins in cereal grain (Part 15). Distribution of deoxynivalenol in naturally contaminated wheat kernels , Mycotoxin Research, 8, 27-31. 

The naturally occurring mycotoxins, 125 and 126, produced mainly by fungi" and implicated in the variety of toxicoses in man and animals99 100, have been tritium labelled101 (equations 46 and 47) for use in toxicology metabolism and pharmacokinetic studies. Position 15 in verrucarol and position 16 in verrucarin A have been tritium-labelled, because they should not suffer from the loss of labelling protons during the... 

Jemmali M, Ueno Y, Ishii K, Frayssinet C, Etienne M (1978) Natural occurrence of trichothecenes, nivalenol, deoxynivalenol, T-2 toxin and zearalenone in corn. Experientia 34 1333-1334 Josephs RD, Schuhmacher R, Krska R (2001) International interlaboratory study for the determination of the Fusarium mycotoxins zearalenone and deoxynivalenol in agricultural commodities. Food Addit Contam 18 417-430... 

Dihydroxylation. The key step in the synthesis of a natural mycotoxin from the dehydropentacyclic precursor 1 requires dihydroxylation of the nuclear double bond. Direct osmylation with catalytic 0s04 and N-methylmorpholine N-oxide... 

This document deals only with estimating exposure to direct additives and chemical contaminants. The procedures used to estimate exposure to chemical contaminants in food (including naturally occurring toxicants, such as mycotoxins) are essentially the same as those used for direct additives. Thus, contaminants will be considered in the discussion of direct additive exposure estimation. The procedures discussed herein are equally applicable to color additives, GRAS substances, prior-sanctioned ingredients, and pesticide residues. 

Air, water, soil, and food are all unavoidable components of the human environment. Each of those elements influences the quality of human life, and each of them may be contaminated. Food is not only the elementary source of nutrients, but may also contain natural chemical substances with toxic properties, e.g., cyanogenic glycosides (many plants), solanine (green parts of potatoes, sprouted potatoes, and potatoes stored in light), industrial pollutants (heavy metals), biogenic amines (fish), or mycotoxins (moldy foodstuffs). 

International Agency for Research on Cancer (lARC) (1993). Toxins derived from Fusarium moniliforme Fumonisins Bi and Bz and Fusarin C. In "lARC Monographs on the Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risks to Humans Some Naturally Occurring Substances Food Items and Constituents, Heterocyclic Aromaotic Amines and Mycotoxins," vol. 56, pp. 445 66. International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. 

Some Naturally Occurring Substances Food Items and Constituents, Heterocyclie Aromatic Amines and Mycotoxins... 

In this section, tetramic acids with an acyl group substituent at C-3 are discussed. The simplest of the naturally occurring 3-acyl tetramic acids, tenuazonic acid (6), was first isolated from the culture filtrate of Alter-naria tenuis [18] and, subsequently, from other fungal species (A. alternate, A. longipes, Pyricularia oryzae) [19,20]. Species of Altemaria are known to produce more than 70 secondary metabolites, many of which, particularly those from the Altemaria altemata complex, are mycotoxins [19]. The absolute stereochemistry of 6 (55,65) was deduced from the formation of L-isoleucine on ozonolysis followed by acid hydrolysis [21]. 

Similar considerations are relevant for other airborne, persistent, bioaccumulating pollutants, primarily polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT). Naturally occurring toxins - mycotoxins... 

The UV irradiation of allyloxy-ketones and -aldehydes has led, by 5-hydrogen abstraction, to a useful high-yield synthesis of the 2-alkenyl-3-hydroxytetrahydrofurans (80CC657). This substitution pattern occurs in the natural mycotoxins citreoviridin and asteltoxin (Scheme 56). 

An excellent review of methods in mycotoxin analysis was published by the FAO (29), and yearly updates on analytical methods are provided by the General Referee Report, Committee on Natural Toxins, published in the Journal of AO AC International. 

IARC. Some naturally occurring substances food items and constituents, heterocyclic aromatic amines and mycotoxins. Monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans. 56 489-521, 1993. 

MW Tracksess. Committee on Natural Toxins Mycotoxins, General Referee Report. J AOAC Int 80(1) 119-125, 1997. 

EW Sydenham, PG Thiel, WFO Marasas, GS Shephard, DJ Van Schalkwyk, KR Koch. Natural occurence of some fusarium mycotoxins in com from low and high esophageal cancer prevalence areas of Transkei, Southern Africa. J Agric Food Chem 38 1900-1903, 1990. 

Pittet A (1998) Natural Occurrence of Mycotoxins in Foods and Feeds - An Updated Review. Revue Med Vet 149 479... 

Ansari, A. A. and Shrivastava, A. K. (1990). Natural occurrence of Alternaria mycotoxins in sorghum and ragi from North Bihar, India. Food Additives Contaminants Part A. 7, 815-820. 

As shown above, di-tert-butoxyethyne 1s the only acetylenic diether prepared so far whose stability allows its use as a synthetic Intermediate. It has been used 1n the synthesis of all the members of the series of monocyclic oxocarbons (deltic, squaric, croconic, and rhodizonic acids), as well as in the synthesis of semisquaric acid, the parent compound of the natural mycotoxins, noniliforndna... 

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