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.