ochratoxins การใช้

Exposure to ochratoxins through diet can cause acute toxicity in mammalian kidneys.
Some species produce toxic secondary metabolites, collectively termed mycotoxins including aflatoxins, ochratoxins, fumonisins, trichothecenes, citrinin, and patulin.
Some strains of " A . niger " have been reported to produce potent mycotoxins called ochratoxins; other sources disagree, claiming this report is based upon misidentification of the fungal species.
In 2007, the International Journal of Food Microbiology published a study that claimed " mycotoxin contamination in pet food poses a serious health threat to pets ", and listed them : aflatoxins, ochratoxins, trichothecenes, zearalenone, fumonisins and fusaric acid.
Although the microbes responsible have proved highly variable from region to region and even factory to factory, the key organism found and responsible for almost all pu-erh fermentation has been identified in numerous studies as " Aspergillus niger ", with some highlighting the possibility of ochratoxins produced by the metabolism of some strains of " A . niger " having a potentially harmful effect through consumption of Pu-erh tea.