Mycotoxins are toxic chemicals produced by many types of fungi.
Neem is anti-fungal and anti-mycotoxin. It can be used on crops and animals to eliminate many mycotoxin-producing fungi. It can be used by people to help alleviate the symptoms of mycotoxin exposure.
Coffee
The green coffee is very suseptible to mould during storage.
Neem can be harvested and applied by coffee growers as a totally non-toxic alternative to conventional pesticides
neem eliminates fungi and associated mycotoxins
"Aflatoxin production was inhibited in fungi grown in presence of various concentrations of neem leaf extract."
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Effects
of neem leaf extract on production of aflatoxins and activities of
fatty acid synthetase, isocitrate dehydrogenase and glutathione
S-transferase in Aspergillus parasiticus.
Source
Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modaress University, Tehran, I.R. Iran. allameha@modares.ac.ir
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Mycotoxins in coffee.
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It would be great to see Neem used
on coffee and other crops to reduce mycotoxins which cause countless
diseases especially among farmers. Here is a map showing come indication of world wide mycotoxin rates
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BIOMIN Mycotoxin Survey Program 2011
Since
2005, BIOMIN has been conducting extensive studies documenting the
occurrence of mycotoxins worldwide. The BIOMIN Mycotoxin Survey Program
2011, the most comprehensive report on the market, details the
distribution of mycotoxins according to their region of origin and
commodity type.
Mycotoxin World Map
More than 4,300 samples were collected from various
countries over a 12-month period from January to December and 13,854
analyses were carried out to investigate the occurrence of aflatoxins
(Afla), zearalenone (ZON), deoxynivalenol (DON), fumonisins (FUM) and/or
ochratoxin A (OTA) in the different regions and feed materials.
More
than 70 % of the samples were analyzed by High Performance Liquid
Chromatography (HPLC), followed by Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay
(ELISA) and the thin-layer chromatography (TLC) method.
Samples
were classified firstly according to their region of origin, mainly by
the Asia-Pacific (37 %), Europe, Africa and the Middle East (35 %), the
Americas (27 %), and secondly by means of commodity types, ranging from
raw materials like corn (33 %), wheat (9 %), barley (7 %) and soybean (5
%) to finished feed (25 %), silage (8 %) and other feed ingredients (13
%).
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The EMAN exists to scientific information on
mycotoxins, such as aflatoxins, ochratoxin A, trichothecenes (including
deoxynivalenol or vomitoxin), fumonisins, zearalenone and ergot
alkaloids, to industry, consumers, legislators and the scientific
community.
They talk about the HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point). 30 years ago in a collaboration between NASA, the
Pillsbury company and the US army laboratories in a programme designed
to ensure "absolute food safety" for US astronauts... concerned
only with food safety, and not food quality as a whole.
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Zearalenone is only partly decomposed by heat. Approximately 60% of
zearalenone remained unchanged in bread while about 50% survived the
production of noodles. In dry milling of maize, concentrations in the
main food producing fractions including flour and grits, were reduced by
80-90% although increased concentrations were found in bran and germ.
Extrusion cooking in spiked food grade corn grits has been shown to
result in significant reduction of zearalenone with higher reductions of
ZEN at 120 -140 ºC than at 160 ºC although the effect of moisture level
on the reduction of ZEN was not significant. Wet milling of maize
concentrates zearalenone in the gluten fraction by a factor between 2
and 7. Metabolism of zearalenone to related oestrogenic compounds can be
caused by enzymic action or within livestock.
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