Risk assessment of ochratoxin A in food

Risk assessment of ochratoxin A in food

Abstract The European Commission asked EFSA to update their 2006 opinion on ochratoxin A (OTA) in food. OTA is produced by fungi of the genus Aspergillus and Penicillium and found as a contaminant in various foods. OTA causes kidney toxicity in different animal species and kidney tumours in rodents....

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Main Authors: EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM), Dieter Schrenk, Laurent Bodin, James Kevin Chipman, Jesús del Mazo, Bettina Grasl‐Kraupp, Christer Hogstrand, Laurentius (Ron) Hoogenboom, Jean‐Charles Leblanc, Carlo Stefano Nebbia, Elsa Nielsen, Evangelia Ntzani, Annette Petersen, Salomon Sand, Tanja Schwerdtle, Christiane Vleminckx, Heather Wallace, Jan Alexander, Chiara Dall'Asta, Angela Mally, Manfred Metzler, Marco Binaglia, Zsuzsanna Horváth, Hans Steinkellner, Margherita Bignami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2020-05-01
Series:EFSA Journal
Subjects:
Ochratoxin
hazard characterisation
dietary exposure assessment
margin of exposure approach
risk characterisation
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2020.6113

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https://doi.org/10.2903/j.efsa.2020.6113

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