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Infrared Spectroscopy Detection of Fungal Infections and Mycotoxins for Food Safety Concerns
| Pei-Shih Liang* | |
| Department of Research Agricultural Engineering, USDA-ARS, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA, USA | |
| Corresponding Author : | Pei-Shih Liang Department of Research Agricultural Engineering USDA-ARS, Western Regional Research Center Albany, CA, 800 Buchanan Street Albany, California 94710, USA Tel: 510 559-5868 E-mail: peishih.liang@gmail.com |
| Received: September 15, 2015 Accepted: October 1, 2015 Published: October 10, 2015 | |
| Citation: Pei-Shih L (2015) Infrared Spectroscopy Detection of Fungal Infections and Mycotoxins for Food Safety Concerns. J Infect Dis Ther 3:241. doi:10.4172/2332-0877.1000241 | |
| Copyright: © 2015 Liang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | |
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Abstract
Mycotoxins, which are toxins produced by fungi, can pose great danger to human health with their acute and chronic effects when contaminated foods (grains, fruits, meat, or milk) are ingested. Fungal infections in food crops are extremely common and many developed countries have set standards to monitor and control their imported and exported food products. The analytical methods required to quantify the toxin concentrations are accurate and sensitive but often destructive thus rely on sampling to determine the contamination status. Infrared spectroscopy has gained a lot of attention for its ability to non-destructively provide critical information of samples, which can help reduce the uncertainties inherited from the sampling methods. Several successful examples in identifying fungal infection from agricultural commodities provide great hope for a faster and more cost-effective screening method to help eliminate the health threats.
