- 5TH ANNUAL WORKSHOP OF NIGERIA MYCOTOXIN AWARENESS AND STUDY NETWORK 2010
The NMASN is organizing workshop on a Mycotoxin Management in Agriculture. The Nigeria Mycotoxin Awareness and Study Network (NMASN) is a body of scientists in the academia, industry, government... - MycoRed INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MYCOTOXICOLOGICAL RISKS IN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES
25-27 October 2010 - Cairo, Egypt.
The workshop will be focused on the cooperation among Mediterranean Countries, with an overview on the current situation on the occurrence of... - 11th European Fusarium Seminar ‘Fusarium – Mycotoxins, Taxonomy, Pathogenicity and Host Resistance’ 20/24 September 2010 - Radzikow, Poland. The 11th European Fusarium Seminar ‘Fusarium – Mycotoxins, Taxonomy, Pathogenicity and Host Resistance’ will be held at IHAR - Plant...
- The World Mycotoxin Forum
8/10 November 2010 - The Netherlands.
The World Mycotoxin Forum is the leading international meeting series on mycotoxins where food and feed industry representatives meet with people from... - 13th Congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union
20/25 June 2010 - Rome, Italy.
The Conference is dedicated to the different fields of plant pathology, including control strategies. The different sessions of the congress will cover applied... - 2nd International MoniQA Conference
8/10 June 2010 - Krakow, Poland.
The 2nd International MoniQA Conference (EU FP7 project) will set out the state of the art on managing emerging and persisting food hazards and the related... - ISM Workshop Training Course October 4-8 2010
A one-week workshop-training course to be held at ISPA-CNR in Bari, Italy, under the aegis of MycoRed project and ISM (International Society for Mycotoxicology). The goal of the course is to... - II International Symposium "WINE MICROBIOLOGY AND SAFETY: FROM THE VINEYARD TO THE BOTTLE"
The II International Symposium "Microsafetywine", focused on Microbiology and Quality of Wine, was held in Martina Franca (Taranto, Italy) on 19th and 20th November 2009 with the... - International Fusarium Laboratory Workshop. March / 7-12 / 2010
The workshop will be held at Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto. Río Cuarto. Argentina. This Workshop will be taught by seven international Fusarium experts. Participants will be... - Phyco and Mycotoxins 2010
We have the pleasure to invite you to the VI Latinamerican Congress of Mycotoxins, organized by the Latinamerican Society of Mycotoxicology, together with the II International Symposium on Fungal and...
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Huge quantities of food are wasted every year because they are invaded by toxic fungi or undesired fungal products. This is most likely to occur in hotter countries where food shortages may already be a problem.
Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites produced by fungi that usually belong to the Aspergillus, Penicillium or Fusarium genera. They can be produced on a wide range of agricultural commodities and under a diverse range of agronomic and ecological conditions worldwide.
Mycotoxins have been estimated to affect a quarter of the world’s food crops, including many basic foodstuffs and animal feeds, as well as cash crops such as coffee having high economic value. Mycotoxins accumulation in foods and feeds represents a major threat to human and animal health as they are responsible for a variety of toxic effects including the induction of cancer, and digestive, blood and nerve defects.
Because of the scale of the problem, which also affects European crops, the European Commission has recently funded a number of research projects to investigate several aspects related to toxic fungi and mycotoxins in food crops. The MYCO-GLOBE Specific Support Action of the VI Framework Programme, begun in October 2004, has been set up to exchange results with other countries that have bilateral science and technology agreements with the EU, within the wider framework of a global information system on mycotoxins and toxigenic fungi. A consortium of international experts, acting as the MYCO-GLOBE steering committee, decided to found the “International Society for Mycotoxicology” in order to more effectively disseminate knowledge and skills on Toxigenic Fungi and Mycotoxins.
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