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A CONCISE HISTORY OF MYCOTOXIN RESEARCH

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Department of Chemistry, Carleton University

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Ottawa, Ontario K1S5B6 Canada

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ABSTRACT

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Toxigenic fungi and mycotoxins entered human food supplies about the time when mankind

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first began to cultivate crops and to store them from one season to the next, perhaps 10,000

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years ago. The storage of cereals probably initiated the transition by mankind from hunter

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gatherer to cultivator, at the same time providing a vast new ecological niche for fungi

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pathogenic on grain crops or saprophytic on harvested grain, many of which produced

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mycotoxins. Grains have always been the major source of mycotoxins in the diet of man and

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his domestic animals. In the historical context, ergotism from Claviceps purpurea in rye has

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been known probably for more than 2,000 years, and caused the deaths of many thousands of

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people in Europe in the last millennium. Known in Japan since the 17th Century, acute cardiac

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beriberi associated with the consumption of moldy rice was found to be due citreoviridin

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produced by Penicillium citreonigrum. This toxin was believed to be only of historic

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importance until its reemergence in Brazil a few years ago. Other Penicillium toxins,

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including ochratoxin A, once considered to be a possible cause of Balkan endemic

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nephropathy, are treated in a historical context. The role of Fusarium toxins in human and

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animal health, especially T-2 toxin in alimentary toxic aleukia in Russia in the 1940s, and

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fumonisins in equine leucoencephalomalasia, is set out in some detail. Finally, this paper

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documents the story of the research that led to our current understanding of the formation of

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aflatoxins in grains and nuts, due to the growth of Aspergillus flavus, and its role, in synergy

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with hepatitis B virus, in human liver cancer. During a period of climate change and greatly

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reduced crop diversity on a global basis, researchers tasked with monitoring the food system

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need to be aware of fungal toxins that might have been rare in their working careers that can

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reappear.

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KEYWORDS: mycotoxin, history, ergotism, cardiac beriberi, ochratoxin, deoxynivalenol,

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alimentary toxic aleukia, fumonisin

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INTRODUCTION

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Essentially all of the agriculturally important fungal toxins were first recognized as animal

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diseases and often there was a long journey before their significance in humans was

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adequately understood. In most cases, the idea that fungal toxins were important was

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discounted. Mycotoxins have always been “black swans”. Romans assumed that black Swans

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did not exist, something that would have surprised the Maori and Australian aboriginal

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peoples. For >1500 years, the black swan existed in the European imagination as a metaphor

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for that which could not exist. The term black swan has come to signify the role of high-

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impact, hard-to-predict, and rare events that are beyond the realm of normal expectations

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and the psychological biases that make people individually and collectively blind to

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uncertainty.

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In the second decade of the 21st Century, it is relatively easy to identify the principal

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mycotoxins that affect food and feed. The use of next generation sequencing combined with

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alpha taxonomy and reliable sequence databases inform our perspective on the presence of

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fungi on crops. The genes responsible for the agriculturally-important mycotoxins have been

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identified in full or in part and thus their presence can be rapidly assessed in new species.

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For example, this led to the understanding that, although first thought to be confined to a

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number of species of Fusarium, some fumonsins can be produced by Aspergillus niger. FB2

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and FB4 have been found in raisins and other dried fruits and in wine 1. Untargeted analytical

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methods allow samples to be retrospectively analyzed for unanticipated fungal toxins in

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samples 2. In consequence, the focus of modern researchers is primarily on the management 3



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of known compounds emerging or re-emerging in new parts of the world because of climate

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variability and changes in agronomic practices 3. In addition, genetic change in the principal

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toxigenic fungi including F. graminearum and Aspergillus flavus is an increasing threat 3-5.

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The principal small grains, wheat, barley and rye arose from North Africa and the

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near east 6. This enabled the appearance of the first agricultural settlements around 9000 BC

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along the fertile crescent between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers 7. Thus began the two

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important drivers of mycotoxin problems: the need to store crops and the movement of crops

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outside their areas of adaptation. The storage of cereals probably initiated the transition by

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mankind from hunter gatherer to cultivator, at the same time providing a vast new ecological

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niche for fungi pathogenic on grain crops or saprophytic on harvested grain – many of which

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we now know produce mycotoxins. The fact that insects and fungi grew on stored seeds was

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clearly recognized as an issue for the rulers of the larger settlements and towns. The rise of

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the Egyptian empire required good grain stores to feed cities and for famine. Passmore 8

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noted that “Joseph [was] the pioneer in famine administration, who fed the people of Egypt

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during seven lean years on grain stored through seven years of plenty.” Earthenware barrels

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used during the Minoan civilization in 2000 BC can still be seen in their ancient capital,

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Knossos, on Crete, today. The design of Roman granaries included raised floors that allowed

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aeration to keep the grains dry and cool as well as treatments for insect infestations 9 that

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would reduce the risk of fungal damage. The grain silos were built in walled enclosures,

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carefully plaster coated on the inside and whitewashed outside. In order to store the grain, the

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workers had to climb stairs to a small window near the top of the cone, carrying baskets.

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Through a little door at the bottom corn could be taken out.


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The small grains, emmer, wheat, barley and oats, were moved from the Middle East

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and the Nile Delta across Europe over a period of 10,000 years. The climate in sites of origin

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of these crops is dry but as they moved east and north, the seasons were shorter, cooler and

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damper. In the British Isles, the dominant crops in the Neolithic age were (in order) emmer,

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naked barley, spelt and wheat. By Roman times, this had changed to hulled barley, oats,

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emmer, wheat and rye 10. Rye was an important crop from the 7th Century 11 such that by the

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Middle Ages, rye became dominant, and the way was opened for ergot of rye to become a

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serious problem. Although ergot is mentioned in the Old Testament and during Roman times,

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epidemics of ergotism were reported in Western Europe only from about 800 AD. 12 The

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toxicity associated with ergot sclerotia in bread was not proven until 1630 1 after which

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efforts were made to promote the sieving of sclerotia from grain used for bread making. The

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first pure ergot alkaloid was not reported for another 250 years. 13

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Wheat became more important through the 17th and 18th centuries. Cullen 14 noted

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that "Wheat is the farinaceous food most generally used by the better sort of people over the

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whole of Europe, excepting the very northern parts in which it cannot be produced; but even

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there it is imported for the use of persons of condition. It has this advantage, that it can be

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formed into a more perfect kind of bread than any other of the Cerealia ..." Mortality rates in

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England declined in the second half of the 18th Century. Based on a careful study of

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population data from that period, Matossian 15 has suggested that this decline coincided with

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the change from a rye-based diet to a wheat-based diet. The disease known then as 'slow

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nervous fever', which exhibits the symptoms of ergotism, declined in importance as the 18th

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Century progressed. The sharp upsurge in human population which began at about 1750, due 5



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to reduced mortality, may well have resulted from a change in diet from rye to wheat - not

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because of nutritional factors, but because of a reduction in the ingestion of a potent

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mycotoxin.

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A more modern example of dietary shifts has been seen in Africa. In 1948, few

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African people obtained their carbohydrate calories from corn. 16 Calories came from starch

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from cassava, sorghum and millet, which are much less prone to aflatoxin contamination. 17

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At that time, peanuts were the most important source of aflatoxin. The massive increase in

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corn production in Africa in the past 50 years has resulted in greatly increased exposure to

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aflatoxin, as well as fumonisin, in many African diets. 18

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Against this background, it might be considered a mystery that the term

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“mycotoxicosis” was first used just over six decades ago. 19 The center of opinion in the food

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science world was that “there is very little evidence that moldy food causes illness”. 20

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Mycotoxins were defined 21 as “fungal metabolites which when ingested, inhaled or absorbed

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through the skin cause lowered performance, sickness or death in man or domestic animals,

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including birds.”. By convention, this excludes mushroom toxins and compounds only toxic

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to lower animals such as insects, or microorganisms. 21-23

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ERGOTISM

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The association of one human illness with a fungus has been known for a long time, probably

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even by the Greeks and Romans. There are clear references to ergotism from the Middle


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Ages mainly in France but throughout continental Europe, the UK, Scandinavia and Russia.

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Following the increased use of rye in central Europe in the Middle Ages, outbreaks of

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fatal ergotism were common. Although the secondary literature suggests that epidemics

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involved tens of thousands of people, this appears to be confusion with bubonic plague.

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However, documented examples of villages and surrounding areas with 100-1000 deaths in

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the period 900-1800 AD are found throughout the literature.24 These regions also

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experienced reduced fertility in villages were common. This has been attributed to the

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reproductive toxicity of sub-lethal exposure to ergot.15,24 The great mycologist Louis

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Tulasne recognized ergot sclerotia as the result of infection by the fungus Claviceps

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purpurea.25 During milling, ergot sclerotia are not readily separated from sound grain, but

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become fragmented and dispersed throughout the flour.

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The earliest reports of ergotism described two types: convulsive ergotism and

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gangrenous ergotism. The former “seized upon men with a twitching and kind of numbness

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in the hands and feet, sometimes on one side, and sometimes on both. Hence a convulsion

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invaded men on a sudden when they were about their daily employments, and first the fingers

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and toes were troubled, which convulsion afterwards came to the arms, knees, shoulders,

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hips, and indeed the whole body, until the sick would lie down, and roll up their bodies round

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like a ball, or else stretch out themselves straight at length. Terrible pains and visions

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accompanied this evil, and great clamours and screeching did the sick make”. Gangrenous

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ergot was described as “a plague of invisible fire broke out, cutting off limbs from the body

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and consuming many in a single night. The cries of those in pain and the shedding of burned

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up limbs alike excited pity; the stench of rotten flesh was unbearable”.24, 26

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In 1630, Dr. Thuillier, the physician to the then Prime Minister of France, the Duke of Sully,

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was the first to prove that consumption of ergoty rye caused ergotism. He observed that the

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intensity of the malady was in proportion to the amount of ergoty grain consumed and that

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people with more diverse diets suffered less. He fed ergot sclerotia to a variety of domestic

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animals and they all died. This led to a recommendation to the King and Clergy to advocate

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removal of the sclerotia by sieving. More than a Century after this, L'Abbé Tessier proposed

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cultivation of potatoes instead of rye, improved soil drainage and the enforced cleaning of

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grains. 1 Removing sclerotia from grain was promoted from the 17th Century but often

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remained ineffective well into the 20th Century in Europe. 15, 24, 27 Sieving the scleroria from

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small grains in the USA and Canada was enforced in grain quality standards from the turn of

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the 20th Century. As noted, the first structures of ergot alkaloids were reported in the 19th

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Century and are derivatives of lysergic acid.13 The mechanism of action of ergot alkaloids is

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now well understood and some are used pharmaceutically.

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The last reported outbreak of ergotism in Europe that affected consumers occurred in

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the French village of Pont St Esprit in 1954. “Bread of madness” was sold to many in the

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town 28. This resulted in more than 200 people becoming ill and four died from

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cardiovascular collapse 29, 30. More recently, occupational exposures to ergot during milling

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have resulted in severe toxicosis of the miller. 31 In the last decade, ergot has become more


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common in parts of Europe 32 and North America 33 and preventing contamination, especially

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in animal feed will require vigilance.

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PENICILLIUM TOXINS IN RICE

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Cardiac beriberi. “Heart-attacking paralysis”, also known as acute cardiac beriberi was

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reported in a number of areas from the 17th centuries. Apparently this was a quite common

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disease in Japan, beginning in the second half of the 19th Century and continuing into the 20th

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Century 34 and was notable for primarily affecting young healthy males. 35 The first

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symptoms of cardiac beriberi are heart distress and palpitation, with rapid breathing. After a

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few hours, breathing becomes labored, nausea and vomiting are experienced, and within 2-3

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days, anguish, pain, restlessness and unusual behavior occur. In extreme cases, progressive

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paralysis leading to respiratory failure may cause death.

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In 1881, Dr. Junjiro Sakaki reported toxicity studies on this type of mouldy rice.

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Using ethanol extracts, he elicited symptoms in experimental animals similar to those of this

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disease in humans, leading him to conclude that mouldy rice could cause this type of

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paralysis. As a result, in 1910, a government inspection scheme dramatically reduced the

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sale of moldy rice in Japan and the incidence of cardiac beriberi suddenly decreased. 35

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Similar observations were reported by a British doctor working in the jungles in Borneo. Dr.

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Hose 36 reported that Chinese laborers suffered from beriberi and that the rice in their bags

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often became moldy. He carried out experimental feeding studies with monkeys and

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and paralytic symptoms. He thus concluded that the principal cause of beriberi in Borneo was

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the consumption of moldy rice.

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The study of acute cardiac beriberi was continued by Miyake at the Rice Utilization

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Institute in Japan. In 1937, a Penicillium species, subsequently described as P. toxicarium,

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was isolated from yellow Taiwanese rice imported into Japan. The species was later shown to

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be synonymous with the earlier species P. citreoviride. After World War II, a mycotoxin was

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isolated, characterized and named citreoviridin by Yoshimasa Hitata. 37 Using high doses of

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pure citreoviridin, the symptoms of acute cardiac beriberi were reproduced in experimental

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animals. 35 Using CF1 mice, Nishie et al. 38 showed that near lethal doses (~ 5mg/kg bw) of

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citreoviridin decreased motor activities, body temperature and had cataleptic effects.

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Intravenous lethal doses resulted in erythema and shallow breathing. Death was due to heart

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failure precipitated by respiratory arrest.

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Penicillium citreoviride was renamed P. citreonigrum, a still earlier name, by Pitt. 39

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It appears to be a very rare species even in rice 40, 41 and until very recently, cardiac beriberi

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was considered to be a historical disease. However, the disease reappeared in 2006 in

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northern Brazil, where more than 1000 cases and more than 40 deaths occurred. 42 The

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presence of P. citreonigrum and citreoviridin was confirmed. The disease occurred among

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subsistence farmers growing rice crops on recently cleared land, and it was more common in

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young healthy males. Subsequent work showed that the rice was often also contaminated by

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low levels of aflatoxin and trichothecenes, however symptoms of the disease indicated death

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from cardiac beriberi. 43

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Other yellow rice toxins in Japan. After World War II, exhaustion of food production in

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Japan forced the government to import large quantities of rice from all over the world. The

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Rice Utilization Institute was re-established as the Food Control Bureau in 1947. 37 The

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Bureau soon identified other sources of toxic yellow rice. One fungal species, identified as

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Penicillium islandicum, was found to produce the toxic chemicals luteoskyrin and

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cyclochlorotine. 37 Both were hepatotoxic, and luteoskyrin was also reported to induce

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hepatic cancer at 5 mg/kg bw, a dose that is close to half the LD50. 44 The presence of P.

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citrinum and citrinin in discolored rice also caused concern for Japanese authorities in

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postwar years. 37 Citrinin has low acute toxicity. 45 Arai and Hibino 46 reported that feeding

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male F344 rats 70 mg/kg bw of citrinin for up to 80 weeks resulted in kidney damage,

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however, no effects were seen in a 90-day study with Wistar rats fed 0.2 and 20 µg/kg bw

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citrinin per day. 47

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Penicillium toxins in corn. In 1913, a Penicillium species isolated from mouldy corn in

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Nebraska was reported to produce a compound that was toxic to animals when injected at

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levels of 200 to 300 mg/kg body weight. 48 The isolate was identified as P. puberulum

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Bainier, and the toxin was named penicillic acid. These authors cited work by an Italian

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investigator, Prof. B. Gosio from 1896. He reported that a Penicillium isolated from corn was

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toxic to various laboratory animals. A compound was crystallized from liquid culture filtrate

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with the empirical formula C9H10O3, similar to the known formula for penicillic acid. Gosio’s

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work is likely the first reliable account of toxin production by a Penicillium species. In the

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In the major growing areas in the USA, corn was stored primarily in cribs and shelled

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just before use. 50 During the 1940s, producers began changing to harvesting systems that

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shell corn at harvest, so that by 1998, only 7% of the US corn crop was stored unshelled in

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cribs. 51 The growth of Penicillium species on corn stored on the husk was a substantial

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problem in the cribs used prior to the 1970s. 52-54 Corn damaged by Penicillium was

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associated with animal toxicosis primarily in pigs and poultry. P. viridicatum cultured on

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autoclaved corn produced the toxic naphthaquinones xanthomegnin and viomellein 55, 56 and

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citrinin. 57 Modern harvesting systems and grain storage have virtually eliminated this

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problem.

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A converse trend has been the increase in silage fed to dairy cattle. In the 1960s,

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severe toxicoses in cows (e.g. fatalities, bovine abortion and placental retention) were

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associated with the growth of Penicillium crustosum, P. roqueforti and related species in

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stored corn silage in Japan 58, 59 and in the northern USA. 3, 60 General ill-thrift in mainly in

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cows was also reported. 61-62 In North America, P. roqueforti and P. paneum isolated from

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silage produce structurally diverse metabolites including roquefortine, PR toxin, penitrem A,

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marcfortine A, B and C, andrasin A and B, patulin and mycophenolic acid. 63, 64 P. roqueforti,

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which uniquely produces PR toxin, is associated with more severe toxicosis. Festuclavine,

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produced by P. paneum, and associated with ill-thrift, is similar to the alkaloids found in cool

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season fescues colonized by endophytes which are known to cause ill-thrift in grazing

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animals. 64 This problem has reappeared in cooler dairy areas around the Great Lakes and

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eastern Canada and northeastern USA and coincided with the cultivation of short season

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hybrid corn. Much this crop is used to produce silage. In Canada, the use of ensiled corn has


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increased 120 times in the past 25 years.65 Surveys in the northeast USA report pervasive

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contamination of silage by toxins from P. roqueforti and related species. 66

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OCHRATOXIN A

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Ochratoxin A (OTA, 1) was originally described as a metabolite of Aspergillus ochraceus

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from laboratory experiments on fungal toxicity in South Africa.67 OTA was not reported in

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crops until 1969. 68 In the same year, the first report of OTA from a Penicillium species was

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published. 69 Soon after, more species of Aspergillus and Penicillium were shown to produce

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OTA. In post-World War II Scandinavia, porcine nephropathy was common and was

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subsequently linked to mouldy grain, then to a fungus identified as Penicillium viridicatum. 70

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A representative isolate was shown to produce citrinin and OTA. 71 The major source of the

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toxin in Denmark in swine diets was shown to be barley, 72 and the fungus was later correctly

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identified as P. verrucosum. 73 OTA was characterized as a potent kidney toxin. 74 An OTA

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serum adduct was found to be pervasive in the blood of pigs at slaughter in the region 75, 76,

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and later in humans. 77

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Although now seldom seen, Balkan Endemic Nephropathy (BEN) was a kidney

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disease with a long history in certain parts of Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Romania, all within

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the lower Danube basin. Whole families were affected, resulting in towns with houses

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boarded up because people could not be induced to occupy them after the mysterious deaths

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of the original inhabitants. At least one small town in Bulgaria was moved to a new

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location.78, 79 Many etiological agents were suggested including plant and fungal toxins,

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viruses, lead, uranium, and silica. 80, 81 Danish researchers strongly promoted the hypothesis

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that BEN was caused by exposure to OTA 82-85 to the exclusion of competing ideas.

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Historically, exposure to OTA was common in parts of Eastern Europe where BEN

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occurred, but it has been shown more recently that OTA is present in the blood of most

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Northern and Eastern European people, in the absence of symptoms of BEN.

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A new hypothesis arose from the discovery that symptoms similar to those of BEN

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occurred in people consuming a Chinese herbal medicine inadvertently containing the weed

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Aristolochia, which produced aristolochic acid. This is a potent renal toxicant an IARC

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Class 1 human carcinogen. 86, 87 Aristolochia was shown to occur in the region, seeding just

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before wheat harvest, and then contaminating flour used for bread making. 88, 89 Exposure to

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aristolochic acid may result in tumors with the characteristic genetic signature reported in

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some BEN patients. 90, 91 A recent analysis of the weight of evidence concluded that

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aristolochic acid is the probable cause of BEN. 92

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FUSARIUM TOXINS IN CEREALS

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Red mold disease – scab. Human toxicosis from consuming grain damaged by what we

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now call Fusarium Head Blight(FHB) occurred in southern Japan from about 1890.

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Symptoms, including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, and throat irritation

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were also reported in humans in China and Korea. 93-95 Mycological surveys of suspect grain

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revealed infections by Fusarium graminearum and related species. In the mid-1950s, feeding

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trials with rodents using naturally contaminated grain in Japan showed the signs of toxicosis


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that we now associate with deoxynivalenol (2). 94

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Probably because the toxin associated with F. graminearum was ultimately

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discovered in Japan, the literature has tended to overlook human cases elsewhere. Tsarist

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Russia also experienced serious problems with FHB. Cases of human toxicosis associated

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with consumption of moldy grains (“intoxicating bread”) were reported in Russian literature

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abstracted in English by 1917. 96 This was described by Donuin 97: “In connection with the

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extraordinary prevalence of Fusarium roseum Lk. on cereals, it was observed that the bread

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became poisonous (inebriant bread). People who ate it suffered from weakness, vertigo,

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headache, nausea and vomition.”

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American studies on FHB were reported from the mid-19th Century. 98 By the 1920s,

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it was known that grain infected by F. graminearum was toxic especially to pigs. 96, 99

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German farmers complained about feed refusal and illness in swine after feeding grain from a

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shipment from the 1927 harvest in the USA. Researchers in German isolated a number of

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fungi from the grain, including Fusarium. Culture filtrate of the Fusarium species fed by

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gavage produced feed refusal. 100 Subsequent studies in the USA showed that damaged barley

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resulted in emesis in pigs. 101 A water extract of barley contaminated by G. saubentii [a

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species concept that included F. graminearum] induced emesis in pigs by gavage. 102

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Experiments conducted in the mid-1960s water and methanol extracts of cultures of F.

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graminearum resulted in toxicity in mice and pigs. 103 Using strains isolated from cereals

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affected by FHB, Prentice et al. 104 reported an emetic principle but were unable to determine

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its chemical structure. 105

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caused feed refusal and emesis. Deoxynivalenol, 3-acetyl-DON, and 3,15-diacetyl-DON were

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identified as metabolites of F. roseum No.117, an isolate from the 1970 epidemic in Japan.94,

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an isolate of F. graminearum from contaminated corn that had elicited emesis in pigs. 107 As

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Japanese researchers had reported the full structure in an open meeting and in the first

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publication, the appropriate trivial name that should be used is deoxynivalenol.94 Based on

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the emetic response, humans are probably more sensitive to deoxynivalenol than the most

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sensitive domestic animal, pigs. 108

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US researchers later reported a partial structure of deoxynivalenol as ‘‘vomitoxin’’ from

The full toxigenic potential of F. graminearum 109-112 and the existence of two

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important chemotypes, one producing deoxynivalenol via 15-acetyl deoxynivalenol and the

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other via 3-acetyl deoxynivalenol, were resolved by Canadian researchers. 113 Fusarium head

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blight damaged grain and chronic human exposure to deoxynivalenol remains a stubborn

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problem in much of the world. 114 However, in contrast to 30 years ago, the toxicity of this

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mycotoxin is now well understood. 95, 115, 116

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Zearalenone. Corn contaminated by F. graminearum was occasionally associated

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with estrogenic symptoms, particularly in pigs in the 1920s. 117 An active fraction was

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isolated from corn with a partial structure reported in 1962 118 with the full structure some

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years later. 119, 120 Zearalenone (3) proved to be a major contaminant in corn in the USA and

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Canada, but the problem had largely disappeared by the early 1980s. This was due to a

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combination of warmer temperatures and the use of corn hybrids that matured earlier, both

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factors which reduced the accumulation of zearalenone. 1

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Zearalenone affects reproduction in female pigs at very low exposures, with a dietary


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no-effect level of < 250 µg/kg body weight. Nonhuman primates are also very sensitive. 121

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Zearalenone has been implicated in several incidents of precocious pubertal changes in girls

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in Europe from acute and chronic exposure to the toxin. 122 The available data suggest that

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zearalenone exposure may result in reproductive effects in some parts of Europe 123, 124 and

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China. 125

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ALIMENTARY TOXIC ALEUKIA

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First formally described circa 1930, a disease that came to be known alimentary toxic aleukia

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(ATA) was associated with consuming grains contaminated by Fusarium species in many

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parts of the former Soviet Union. It was notable in civilian populations and domestic animals

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during World War II. This was exhaustively reviewed from primary Soviet literature from the

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time. 126, 127 Inability to harvest crops due to labor shortages meant that crops were left in the

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field. Food insufficiency led to consumption of food prepared with contaminated grain,

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resulting in people reporting a burning sensation in their mouths, vomiting, weakness,

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fatigue, and tachycardia. After a period of time, affected individuals felt better, but there was

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a progressive leucopenia, anemia, and decreased platelet count, lowering "the resistance of

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the body to bacterial infection." As consumption of toxic grains continued, petechial

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hemorrhages on the upper part of the body appeared together with necrotic lesions in the

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mouth and face. Bacterial infections were common. Patients who reached this stage almost

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always died. 128, 129 From 1942 to 1948 this disease resulted in large scale mortalities in the

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throughout the southern and central regions of the USSR. 126, 127 In some localities, mortality

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was as high as 60% of those afflicted, and up to 10% of the population. 130

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The metabolites identified by the Russian scientists were called poaefusarin from F. poae and

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sporofusarin from F. sporotrichiodes. 128 Aware of the Soviet work, and working on

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Fusarium contaminated grain that was acutely toxic to domestic animals, researchers at the

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University of Wisconsin isolated T-2 toxin. 131, 132 This fungus, strain “T-2” of F.

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sporotrichiodes, misidentified as F. tricinctum, was ultimately shown to produce a suite of

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potent trichothecenes, among other compounds. 133 Prof. Chet Mirocha at the University of

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Minnesota established collaboration with Soviet scientists to resolve the toxin associated with

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ATA. He obtained a small sample of poaefusarin from early preparations, and confirmed that

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this was T-2 toxin. 134 In animals, T-2 toxin results in hemorrhagic lesions of the mouth, nose

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and skin. Systemic exposure results in damage to white and red blood cells. The gross

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pathology and hematopoietic effects of ATA were recapitulated in cats. 135 The toxicity of T-

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2 has been exhaustively studied 136, 137 and needs little comment here.

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FUSARIUM KERNEL ROT, ESOPHAGEAL CANCER AND FUMONISIN

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Horses. In the USA, tractors did not outnumber horses until the early 1950s. Thus the health

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of horses on farms was carefully watched over. During the droughts in the latter part of the

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19th and first decades of the 20th Century, hundreds of thousands of horses died from what we

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know as equine leucoencephalomalacia or ELEM. 138 This was perhaps described by the

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Kansas State Veterinarian Dr N.S. Mayo, 139 who wrote: “During the autumn and winter of


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1890-91, reports were published in various live-stock and agricultural papers, of severe losses

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of horses, not only in Kansas, but in adjoining States, from a new and comparatively strange

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disease, which was called ‘blind staggers,’ ‘mad staggers,’ or simply ‘staggers,’ according to

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the symptoms presented in different cases and the imagination of the reporter. Owing to the

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rapidity of the disease, it was difficult to get a case to watch the progress of the disease; but

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one case was seen in the early stages, and this one had to be studied from a safe distance, as

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the least approach threw the animal into a frenzy of excitement.” Unsurprisingly, there were

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several theories as to the cause, but the common term was “corn stalk” disease, as it was only

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associated with the consumption of corn.

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Descriptions of the symptoms of ELEM from exposure to fumonisin (5) follow the

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pattern described by Mayo 139: “…the first thing noticed was a refusal of the feed and a desire

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for water, while sometimes drinking was performed with difficulty. Following this would be

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dullness and a drooping of the head and ears, partial or complete blindness, loss of

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consciousness, delirium and death, or, in a few cases, recovery. In some cases the brain did

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not seem as badly affected as the spinal cord, and the animal would not have good control of

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its hind parts. Some animals would press their heads against a post or wall with considerable

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force; others would be thrown into a frenzy by the least excitement.”. 138 On post mortem, Dr.

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Mayo 139 reported “blood-vessels of the brain were congested. There was no bulging of any

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portion of the brain that I could discover, but a careful manipulation would reveal a soft spot

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toward the anterior portion of the right or left cerebral hemisphere; and in cutting into the

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white central substance, a serous abscess would be found, in which would be floating flocculi

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of broken-down brain substance, which presented the appearance, as one stockman said, ‘of a 19



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mixture of vinegar and curdled milk’.”. ELEM was reported in many countries and ultimately the discovery of the causal

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fungus and toxin involved researchers from the USA, Africa and Europe. An American

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researcher first recreated the disease in horses in 1902 by feeding them mouldy corn but it

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was not until much later that the fungus F. moniliforme (now F. verticillioides) was identified

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as the cause. 140 Researchers in the USA, France and South Africa all attempted to identify

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the chemical responsible for ELEM. Cases of ELEM in South Africa in 1970 led to work

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there, where researchers noticed that aside from the brain lesions, signs of kidney damage

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with precursors for cancer were observed. This work led to the characterization of fumonisin

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was published in 1988. The history of that discovery including the proof that fumonisin

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caused ELEM has been comprehensively reviewed. 141, 142,143 An often-overlooked footnote is

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that fumonisin was reported as macrofusin by French researchers working on ELEM shortly

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after the South African published the structure of fumonisin. 144

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Humans. High rates of esophageal cancer were reported from the 1960s in

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parts of South Africa where corn was a major part of the diet. 145 Many theories were put

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forward, including alcohol consumption, micronutrient deficiency, and exposures to

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chemicals from barrels used for storage of homemade liquor. Early on, it was noticed that the

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disease was more common when the corn in smallholder plots showed a fungal disease

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termed “withered end” 146 which was ultimately shown to be due to the growth of F.

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verticillioides. 147

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incomplete structure, 148 this was shown to occur in unprocessed corn infected by F.

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verticillioides but it was not active in a rodent model. 149

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The idea that a fungal compound that looked like a lipid could cause cancer in animal

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models was strongly resisted. Ultimately the mechanisms that explain the disparate toxicities

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associated with fumonisin exposure required more than 10 years of effort. 150

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AFLATOXINS: NUTS, CORN AND OTHER COMMODITIES

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Turkeys and other birds. It is well known that aflatoxins were discovered following the

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deaths of 100,000 turkey poults in England in 1960, but the story of that discovery is less

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well known. Turkey “X” disease”, so called because it resembled a viral disease, 151 also

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affected smaller numbers of chickens and ducklings, but the cause remained a mystery for

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about a year following the original outbreak.

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Dr W.P. Blount, Chief Poultry Adviser at the company where the main disease

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outbreak occurred, wrote that investigators had tested all major bacterial toxins, 18 chemicals

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including alkalis, arsenic and thallium, 20 agricultural chemicals, pesticides and additives,

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and a variety of feed ingredients. 151 The implicated “Rossetti” meal was found to be highly

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toxic, but the meal was sterile. 151, 152 The same year, a high incidence of liver disease was

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also recorded in ducklings in Kenya. A sample of the peanut meal from the Kenyan outbreak

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was also found to be toxic and was highly contaminated by Aspergillus flavus. The fungus

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was identified by J.J. Elphick, at the Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew. 153 The

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highly fluorescent nature of aflatoxins, as the toxic compounds soon became known, enabled 21



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sensitive assay techniques to be developed, initially by paper chromatography 154 and then by

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the more accurate thin layer chromatography. 155

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The discovery of aflatoxin by British and Dutch researchers 156 might have been

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missed had it not been for the fact that virtually all the turkeys that died were being grown

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within 100 miles of the Port of London. Thus the source of the feed could be easily traced to

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several cargo ships from Brazil including the S.S. Rossetti, which arrived in London on July

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7, 1960 (Hardwick Game Farm v Suffolk Agricultural and Poultry Producers Association,

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[1966] 1 WLR 287 per Diplock LJ).

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In the following few years, much progress was made. This included more reliable

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analytical methods and the discovery of the four common aflatoxins that can occur in nature

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labelled according to their florescent color on TLC and abundances as B1 (6), B2, G1 and G2.

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Aflatoxins were found to be acutely and chronically toxic to domestic animals, and to be

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responsible for several of the animal disease outbreaks reported around 1960. The major

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sources of aflatoxins were peanuts, corn, cottonseed. Aflatoxins were shown to be produced

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by Aspergillus flavus and the closely related A. parasiticus.156 Later, more sensitive assay

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techniques, especially HPLC, were developed and A. flavus and A. parasiticus were reliably

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differentiated. Cole 157 argued that the toxicity reported must have been due in part to

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cyclopiazonic acid. A re-analysis of the peanut meal from the S.S. Rossetti showed that it

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was indeed contaminated by cyclopiazonic acid. 158

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Humans. By the mid-1930s, it had been reported that people from areas of Africa

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where peanut consumption was high were more likely to be diagnosed with liver cancer.

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Similar observations were made from many parts of Africa by about 1960. 159, 160 At the same


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time, Dr. A.G. Oettlé, from the South African Institute for Medical Research reported a

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groundbreaking epidemiological study of African cancer occurrence. He concluded that the

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high rates of hepatocellular carcinoma observed in some regions of Africa could be due to the

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newly discovered aflatoxins (or some other fungal toxin) or organisms such as parasites. 161

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The use of peanut meal as a protein supplement for children mainly in Africa

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commenced soon after the end of World War II, as an initiative of the newly established Food

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and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Soon after that, aflatoxin was found to be highly toxic

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162

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committee of the FAO program established a provisional limit of 30 µg/kg of total aflatoxin

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in peanut protein supplements based on carcinogenicity. 165 Ironically this limit is frequently

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breached in African peanut butter to this day. 166, 167

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and carcinogenic. 152, 163 FAO officials were informed 164 and in early 1966, the advisory

Quite early, the question arose, “What effects might aflatoxins have on man?” 168, 169

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As soon as aflatoxin was discovered and a rudimentary assay had been developed, levels

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were measured in samples of peanut products from India, Uganda and Tanganyika, French

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West Africa, Nigeria, Gambia and Ghana. 170 In South Africa in 1963, of 501 samples tested,

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75 contained 2,000 µg/kg or more of aflatoxin, while in Senegal, 500 samples examined over

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2 years contained 100-20,000 µg/kg. 171 These data permitted studies on non-cancer health

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outcomes. For example, in Senegal, a group of children less than year old each received 70-

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140 g of peanut meal per day for 10 months as a treatment for protein energy

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malnourishment, kwashiorkor. Most of these children suffered from liver damage. 172 The

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meal samples were later found to be contaminated with aflatoxin at 500-1000 µg/kg,

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providing an aflatoxin intake of 35-140 µg/day. Children in Uganda were shown to be 23



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similarly exposed. 173 Children in India fed peanut protein supplements containing aflatoxin

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were shown to have serious liver damage. 174 This became a widespread problem in India,

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notably during drought years. 175

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Among the first of the now tragically high number of child deaths resulting from high

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exposure to aflatoxin was reported from Uganda in 1967. A 15-year-old boy died from acute

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liver failure after consuming food containing 1,700 µg/kg aflatoxin. 176 The author suggested

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that similar cases were at the time likely to be underdiagnosed. Since then, other cases have

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been documented in Africa 177, 178 and Thailand, 179 among other places.

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Epidemiological studies in Swaziland, 180 Uganda 181 and Kenya 182 showed a fairly

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strong linkage between aflatoxin and human cancer. Studies in Thailand, 183 Kenya, 184

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Mozambique 185 and Swaziland 186 permitted a relationship to be shown between exposures to

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naturally occurring mixtures of aflatoxin liver cancer rates. 187 The first review of aflatoxin

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by the International Agency for Research on Cancer in 1971 stated that “Considerable

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evidence is now available to indicate that market sales of some food commodities in poor

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countries often contain aflatoxins. Increased frequency of liver cancer has been recorded in

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populations consuming diets contaminated by aflatoxins and possibly other mycotoxins but

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no causal relationship has been established”. 188

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However, approximately at the same time population based studies were indicating

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that the hepatitis B virus was a cause of primary liver cancer. 189 A series of studies in

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Senegal and other countries showed a high relative risk of seropositivity for hepatitis B and

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primary liver cancer. 190, 191 This led to strongly held views as to whether all the cancer was

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an official of the FDA, Mr. Leonard Stoloff estimated aflatoxin exposure in children in rural

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communities in the southeastern USA. He suggested that they may have ingested as much as

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40 ng/kg body weight of aflatoxin per day, mostly from corn. 192 From previously published

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figures, 187 such exposure level would suggest 4-10 deaths from primary liver cancer per

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10,000 population per annum: the actual level found was about 1 case. This was less than in

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other regions of the USA where aflatoxin ingestion was insignificant. From this, Stoloff

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concluded in a 1982 that aflatoxin was not a cause of liver cancer. 193 However, two

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subsequent analysis found that his assessment of aflatoxin exposure for the different regions

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in the U.S. was flawed; actual exposures were lower. The acquisition of better data on cancer

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potency of aflatoxin demonstrated that aflatoxin in this population in the southern States was

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associated with a large fraction of the liver cancer burden. 194,195

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High human exposure to other carcinogens in areas with high rates of liver cancer

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complicated the debate for decades. The second time IARC considered aflatoxin, the panel

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offered a similar comment to that in 1971: “The studies of liver cancer incidence in relation

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to aflatoxin intake provide circumstantial evidence of a causal relationship.” 196 IARC first

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classified naturally occurring mixtures of aflatoxin as class 1 carcinogens in 1987.197 With

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the availability of high quality data on the interactions between hepatitis B and aflatoxin, 198

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it was finally possible to clarify the interaction and affirm aflatoxin as a class 1 carcinogen in

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1992.86, 199 In 2016, it may be hard to understand that there was a debate nearly as passionate

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as that for smoking and cancer around aflatoxin and human carcinogenicity even as late as

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1989. 200 However, determination of the relative risks for aflatoxin and hepatitis B required

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sophisticated biomarkers to prevent exposure misclassification and end the debate. 201 A 25



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further issue that delaying consensus was that, although the mechanism is not understood, 202

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co-exposure is synergistic or supra-additive in a number of studies. 203

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MYCOTOXINS IN THE DECADES AHEAD

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There are some other mycotoxins not discussed here that have been found in some locations,

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crops and environments (e.g. diacetoxyscirpenol, sterigmatocystin). However, their

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discovery has followed the same pattern we describe above: health impacts in domestic

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animals leading to questions of human health relevance.

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Regardless, a number of factors will play a major role in shaping the field over the next

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several decades. The first is the economic consequence of mycotoxin contamination in the

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fully developed market and developing economies. In the USA, estimates of the cost of

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aflatoxin associated losses at ca. $300 million in food and feed crops (per year) 204 to $50-1.7

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billion for corn depending on weather conditions. 205 Producer losses associated with a major

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epidemic of Fusarium head blight and deoxynvivalenol contamination in Ontario in 1996

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were estimated at ca. $145 million.206 However, these estimate represent only part of the

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economic losses. In bad years, there are large costs for testing through the entire value chain

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as well as the diversion and transport of rejected lots to alternative uses if possible 207, 208 as

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well as the cost of research. 208 Also in bad years, downgraded grain ends up being fed to

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animals which can be associated with reduced weight gain in sensitive species. 209

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Considering this broader perspective, a Fusarium head blight epidemic in the Midwest USA


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in the period 1998-2000 was associated with $870 million in direct losses and more than

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twice that in secondary economic losses.210

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Developing countries are affected by similar economic consequences and inability to

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export.211 Further, there is a large burden on population health mainly in Africa as well as

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parts of Latin America and East Asia.18 One study estimated that between 25,000 and

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155,000 cases of liver cancer due to aflatoxin alone occur across the world each year. 212

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Using different methodology, the same authors revised this estimate to between 105,000 and

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142,000 new cases due to aflatoxin alone per annum.213 A report from the Foodborne

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Diseases Burden Epidemiology Reference Group of the World Health Organization 214 used

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global estimates of incidence to calculate illnesses, deaths and disease attributable life years

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lost (DALYs) due to dietary dioxin, aflatoxin, cyanide in cassava and peanut allergens.

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Aflatoxin was associated with the highest global DALYs (636,869) due to liver cancer. A

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much larger public health burden is likely to be associated with the influence of aflatoxin in

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childhood stunting. 18

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A second major factor that is shaping the research agenda for mycotoxins is the fact that that

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over the past 50 years, diets in all countries have converged to a number of globally

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important cereal and oil crops. There has been a corresponding decline of other cereals, oil

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crops and starchy root species, notably in Africa. Millets, sorghum, yams, cassava, and sweet

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potatoes have markedly declined.215 In the USA, crop diversity peaked in 1960 and is

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currently at levels comparable to 1870.216 As noted, in Africa, there was a profound shift from 27



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a more diverse food system prior to the 1960s to one where corn and nuts supply most

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calories.16, 215 The crops they replaced as sources of calories, sorghum, millet, and cassava

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generally have low concentrations of aflatoxin in Africa. 17, 217

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A final issue that merits attention is exposure assessment. The above discussion of aflatoxin

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illuminates the critical biomarker data that was needed to resolve the attributable risk for liver

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cancer and is playing at present in a similar question about child stunting. The fully

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developed market economies have depended on a system where exposure is assessed based

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on a two-step process. First, mycotoxins are analyzed in crops and foods. These data are

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gathered and, where available, statistical models based on national diet survey data to project

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exposure across the population. Both of these steps are subject to sampling and analytical

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uncertainties. Recent biomonitoring data for deoxynivalenol in some countries in Europe

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have indicated that the population estimates made by the sampling/analysis/modelling

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approach may not always be secure. A study of urinary mycotoxin biomarkers in a population

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in Belgium indicated that 16–69% of the population possibly exceeded the tolerable daily

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intake for deoxynivalenol.218 A similar, albeit smaller study in Italy reported that and 40% of

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volunteers possibly exceeded the tolerable daily intake. 219 There are two possible reasons for

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this outcome. The first is that in years where incidence of FBH and deoxynivalenol

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contamination are high, maximum residue levels might not prevent some individuals from

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exceeding the tolerable daily intake. 220 Another possibility is the hydrolysis of undetected

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deoxynivalenol glucoside in cereal products affected FHB in the gut. Although first

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recognized 30 years ago,221 in recent years, the prevalence of glycosylated deoxynivalenol in


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foods notably bread and beer has been extensively documented.222 Although deoxynivalenol

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glucoside largely passes through the gut unchanged, a percentage of the population has a gut

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microbiome with the capacity to hydrolyse the glucose to deoxynivalenol.223,224 Regardless,

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these biomonitoring studies mainly from Europe suggest that more use should be made of

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urinary biomarkers to assess exposure.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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We thank Dr. Lauren Jackson and Prof. Dojin Ryu for organizing the symposium on

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mycotoxins at the 2016 Spring meeting of the American Chemical Society and encouraging

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the drafting of this paper. We are grateful for the suggestions of anonymous reviewers on the

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manuscript. We thank Agriculture Canada and Carleton University (JDM) and the CSIRO

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(JP) for the opportunity to work on mycotoxins. We have benefited from working with some

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of the leading figures in the history of this field over the past half Century.

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