Utilization of Non-Nutritive Adsorbents to Sequester Mycotoxins During Extraction of Protein or Other Value Added Components From Mycotoxin Contaminated Cereal or Seed Oil Meal

Abstract

A method for the removal of mycotoxins from cereal or oil seed meal that includes the use of a mycotoxin sequestrant to form a food grade composition for human consumption wherein said composition contains no more or less than an FDA approved level of mycotoxin for a human food product.

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REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional application No. 61 / 225,436, filed Jul. 14, 2009, which is herein incorporated by reference in its entirety.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]1. Field of the Invention[0003]This invention relates to a composition and method for preparing the composition which includes the removal mycotoxins and enzymatic hydrolysis to form bioactive peptides from agricultural products that are contaminated with mycotoxins.[0004]2. Description of the Related Art[0005]Mycotoxins are naturally occurring substances produced by certain species of fungi including, for example, Aspergillus sp., Fusarium sp., Penicillium sp. These fungi commonly grow on and infest plant materials such as grains, oilseeds, and grasses. They are most often produced in the field under conditions of environmental stress on the plant (e.g. heat, insects, and drought). Mycotoxins include aflatoxins, ochartoxins, zearalenones, T-2 toxin, H...

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Benefits of technology

[0021]A still further object of the present invention is food grade solid composition containing no more than or less than FDA approved levels of mycotoxin in a human food product prepared by treating a mycotoxin contaminated cereal or seed meal with a mycotoxin sequesterant.

[0022]Another object of the present inven

Problems solved by technology

Aflatoxins are mycotoxins that present remarkable toxicity and hepatocarcinogenicity.

Aflatoxins can cause diverse toxic effects on virtually all organs, eventually leading to the development of cancerous tumors capable of spreading throughout the entire body.

Fumonisin B1 is a mycotoxin that occurs almost exclusively on corn and can cause toxic effects in horses and swine.

Tricothecenes such as for example T-2 toxin, deoxynivalenol or vomitoxin; ergot, zearalenone, cyclopiazonic acid, patulin, ochartocin A, and secalonic acid D are mycotoxins that can negatively affect impact human and animal health due to their diverse toxic effects.

As a result, mycotoxin contamination of agricultural commodities such as corn, wheat, rye, rice, barley, oats, peanuts, pecans, soybeans, cottonseed, apples, grapes, alfalfa, clover, sorghum and fescue grass forages, can result in severe economic loss at all levels of food production such as cost of preharvest prevention, post-harvest treatment, productivity and increased loss of livestock, health care costs, etc.

In vitro aflatoxin binding experiments may not give an accurate prediction of in vivo animal protection.

Although activated charcoal is odorless, tasteless and non-toxic, it will absorb nutrients, vitamins and minerals, making it unsuitable for use in animal feed.

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