Last updated on 14-12-2020 by Jill Alexandre
Auteurs
Schrenk, Dieter; Bignami, Margherita; Bodin, Laurent; Chipman, James Kevin; del Mazo, Jesús; Grasl‐Kraupp, Bettina; Hogstrand, Christer; Hoogenboom, Laurentius (Ron); Leblanc, Jean‐Charles; Nebbia, Carlo Stefano; Nielsen, Elsa; Ntzani, Evangelia; Petersen, Annette; Sand, Salomon; Schwerdtle, Tanja; Christiane Vleminckx; Marko, Doris; Oswald, Isabelle P; Piersma, Aldert; Routledge, Michael; Schlatter, Josef; Baert, Katleen; Gergelova, Petra; Wallace, HeatherTrefwoorden
Samenvatting:
EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the risks to public health related to the presence of aflatoxins in food. The risk assessment was confined to aflatoxin B1 (AFB1), AFB2, AFG1, AFG2 and AFM1. More than 200,000 analytical results on the occurrence of aflatoxins were used in the evaluation. Grains and grain-based products made the largest contribution to the mean chronic dietary exposure to AFB1 in all age classes, while ‘liquid milk’ and ‘fermented milk products’ were the main contributors to the AFM1 mean exposure. Aflatoxins are genotoxic and AFB1 can cause hepatocellular c…