September 2022

Mycotoxins occur widely in nature and are produced by filamentous fungi. Organisms producing them can develop in foods at any stage in the food chain. They may be present in food as a result of the organism growing and producing the toxin or they enter the food chain by a more indirect route, for example, in milk from animals that have consumed contaminated feed.

September 2022

Sugars are the basic building blocks of carbohydrates found in nature; they can be found in milk, tree saps and many fruits and vegetables. The most common sugars found in foods are the monosaccharides glucose, fructose and galactose and the disaccharides sucrose, lactose and maltose.