Zearalenone and its major metabolites

Zearalenone (ZEN) – a mycotoxin produced by Fusarium species – is one of the most common food and feed contaminants.  In addition to the “free” toxin a number of derivatives exist the partly be counted to the so-called “masked”...

Masked mycotoxins

In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about so-called „masked mycotoxins“”, also known as modified or matrix-associated mycotoxins and describes metabolites of mycotoxins. These metabolites of mycotoxins are formed in the plant, for example by...