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The course “Aflatoxin Mycotoxin Management In Peanuts” aims to train the Agri-food industry on mycotoxin and associated mitigation strategies with a specific focus on aflatoxin mycotoxins in peanuts.
At a glance
Dates: Please enquire for course dates
Duration: 30 hours available at any time. Recommended within 1 month with a maximum duration of 6 months
LocationOnline
Cost: £250
Course structure
The total length of the course is four days and consists of several theoretical, practical online activities and case study sessions to reflect on your current practices prior to a face-to-face personal session with one of the scientists of the Mycotoxin Training Hub.
What you will learn
On successful completion of this course you will be able to:
- Understand and apply the fundamental concepts linked with fungal spoilage and mycotoxin contamination,
- Critically discuss the quantification of mycotoxins and link with potential ongoing regulation: the case of aflatoxins,
- Identify and critically discuss the different mitigation strategies and how they could be implemented,
- Define and challenge a new protocol to establish good practices within your research/industry context.
Core content
Core modules
- Introduction to food mycology
- Fungal occurrence in food and food environment, introduction to mycotoxigenic fungi, hurdle technology.
- Introduction to mycotoxins
- What are mycotoxins? Chemistry, Toxicity, when are mycotoxins produced? Mycotoxins reduction.
- Mycotoxin Regulation
- Which mycotoxins are regulated in the UK? Glance of mycotoxin regulation worldwide,
- Emerging mycotoxins – which mycotoxins are under surveillance?
- Mycotoxin sampling.
- Mycotoxin Detection
- Mycotoxin detection techniques introduction and context-specific usage.
Food-chain specific modules
- Aflatoxin in the peanut chain
- Aspergillus spp. production of aflatoxins. Pre-harvest, Post-harvest, Transport, Process, and End-product.
- Aflatoxin mitigation: Passive change of practices
- Pre-harvest, Post-harvest, Transport, Process and End-product.
- Aflatoxin mitigation: Active change of practices
- Pre-harvest, Post-harvest, Transport, Process and End-product.
- Economics of aflatoxin management within the peanut food chain context, developed countries, developing countries, example of success stories.
Who should attend
This training is suitable for farmers, merchants, and actors of the peanuts food chain that want to obtain knowledge on applied aspects of aflatoxins management in the peanuts food chain.
Speakers
Dr Carol Verheecke-Vaessen
Dr Angel Medina Vaya
Dr Carla Cervini
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The International Fusarium Laboratory Workshop 2023 (IFLW23) was jointly organized by CNR Ispa and the International Society of Mycotoxicology in Bari, Italy on 18-23 June 2023.
International Fusarium experts will teach the workshop. Participants will be introduced to standard morphological, genetic, and molecular biological techniques used to identify and characterize strains of Fusarium. Participants will learn how to use morphological characters to identify the most common Fusarium species, to make tests for vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs) and cross-fertility, and how to extract, amplify and analyze DNA sequences.
Most of the time will be spent working with standard strains in the laboratory. CNR-ISPA is committed to make program activities accessible to all participants.
organized by:
CNR – National Research Council
Institute of Sciences of Food Production (ISPA) – Bari, Italy
Number of places available: 40
Registration deadline: April 30, 2023
ORGANIZERS
Dr. Antonio F. Logrieco
Dr. Antonio Moretti
Dr. Giuseppina Mulè
Welcome to the 1st International Electronic Conference on Toxins
It is my unique pleasure to invite you to join the 1st International Electronic Conference on Toxins (IECT2021). This meeting will be hosted online by https://sciforum.net/conference/IECT2021 from 16 to 31 January, 2021.
For millennia, toxins have played an integral role in many aspects of human endeavors by impacting health and agriculture. In addition to detrimental roles, they have been incredibly useful in expanding our understanding of biology and they continue to serve as tools for drug leads and therapeutic interventions. The mission of this conference is to provide a platform for scientists working on toxins from all organisms to present the latest concepts under research on these toxins and for all to compare and contrast the actions of toxins. The potential uses of toxins for the benefit of science as well as for humankind will be key concepts up for discussion.
Topics are organized into six sessions:
- Novel plant, animal, insect and microbial toxins
- Mechanism of action and/or pathophysiology of toxins
- Use of toxins as tools for research, drug discovery, and therapeutics
- Impact of toxins on public health
- Impact of toxins on agriculture
- Evolution of toxins
The meeting will be organized so that scientists can share their most recent findings with colleagues worldwide in question and answer sessions as well as in discussion groups that will occur online. We hope this will be an engaging format.
Submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the conference committee and, if accepted, authors will be invited to submit an extended abstract for the conference proceedings along with a PowerPoint presentation of their work. The 1st International Electronic Conference on Toxins is sponsored by MDPI and the scientific journal Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651; Impact Factor: 3.531). The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available on https://sciforum.net/conference/IECT2021 for discussion during 16 January 2021-31 January 2021 and will be published in journal Toxins./
IECT2021 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without having the concern or expenditure of travel—all you need is your computer and access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to “attend” this conference by presenting your latest work. There is no registration fee. Abstracts (in English) should be submitted online before 31 October 2020 at http://www.sciforum.net/login.
This workshop will be taught by international Fusarium experts. Participants will be introduced to standard morphological, genetic and molecular biological techniques used to identify and characterize strains of Fusarium. Participants will learn to use morphological characters to identify the most common Fusarium species, how to make tests for vegetative compatibility groups and cross-fertility, and how to extract, PCR amplify, and analyze DNA sequences. More than half of the time will be spent in the laboratory working with standard strains. Students may bring some of their own strains.
Practical training in the laboratory will cover most of the course and trainees will be assisted individually in the laboratory by ISPA-CNR staff expert in instrumental and immunochemical analysis of mycotoxins.
organized by:
CNR – National Research Council
Institute of Sciences of Food Production (ISPA) – Bari, Italy
Number of places available: 40
Registration deadline: May 20, 2018
ORGANIZERS
Dr. Antonio F. Logrieco
Dr. Antonio Moretti
Dr. Giuseppina Mulè
On behalf of the MycoKey project (www.mycokey.eu) we are glad to announce the training course “Strategies for minimization of mycotoxins and toxigenic fungi in food chains”, that will be hosted by the Institute of Sciences of Food Production (ISPA-CNR) of Bari. The course aims at training smart, integrated, sustainable solutions and innovative tools to manage and reduce the major mycotoxins (aflatoxins, fumonisins, trichothecenes and ochratoxin A) in economically important food and feed chains (maize, wheat, barley, dried fruits and grape) in pre and post-harvest. Advanced technologies in the field of chemical detection, molecular analysis, modelling and ICT solutions will be covered by highly qualified international instructors, throughout lectures and laboratory experiences. About half of the duration of the workshop will be ”hands on” and spent in the laboratory.
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The Institute of Sciences of Food Production – National Research Council of Italy (ISPA-CNR), under the aegis of the MYCOKEY project (http://www.mycokey.eu/) and the International Society for Mycotoxicology (ISM), is hosting a one-week Workshop-Training Course from October 9-13, 2017. The course will give information about major issues associated with mycotoxin analysis and contamination along the food chain. Lectures and laboratory training will be provided on routinely used and new screening tools for rapid, robust and user-friendly analysis of mycotoxins, including validation aspects.
Practical training in the laboratory will cover most of the course and trainees will be assisted individually in the laboratory by ISPA-CNR staff expert in instrumental and immunochemical analysis of mycotoxins.
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