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Mold in food grains or produce growth and reproduction of toxic metabolites, and the intake of animal material containing the toxin poisoning syndrome called mycotoxin poisoning disease. Mycotoxicoses have the following characteristics :
The poisoning occurred mainly through contaminated by the fungus food;
By mycotoxin contamination of food and food preparation methods in general can not be heated to remove and destroy;
No pollution immune, mycotoxin are generally small molecule compounds, the body is not right mycotoxin produced antibodies;
Mold growth and reproduction and toxin need a certain temperature and humidity, it is often apparent poisoning the seasonal and regional.
A common type of ergot poisoning, and wheat scab mycophenolate corn poisoning, mildew sugarcane poisoning.
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