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FOOD ADDITIVES AND CONTAMINANTS PART A-CHEMISTRY ANALYSIS CONTROL EXPOSURE & RISK ASSESSMENT
Volume 35, Issue 8, Pages 1581-1595Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/19440049.2017.1419287
Keywords
Aspergillus flavus; Aspergillus parasiticus; aflatoxins; cinnamaldehyde; carvacrol; Origanum vulgare EO; Cinnamomum zeylanicum EO; environmental conditions; effective doses
Funding
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) [AGL2014-53928-C2-1-R]
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Recent research has showed that Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus are aflatoxigenic species that can become very competitive in the framework of climate change. Aflatoxins show carcinogenic, mutagenic, immunotoxic and teratogenic effects on human and animals. Effective and sustainable measures to inhibit these species and aflatoxins in food are required. Origanum vulgare and Cinnamomum zeylanicum essential oils (EOs) and their major active constituents, carvacrol and cinnamaldehyde, respectively, were assayed for inhibiting these species and aflatoxin production in maize extract medium under different environmental conditions. Doses of 10-1000mg l(-1) were assayed and the effective doses for 50 (ED50) and 90% (ED90) growth inhibition were determined. The ED50 of cinnamaldehyde, carvacrol, oregano EO, and cinnamon EO against A. flavus were in the ranges 49-52.6, 98-145, 152-505, 295-560mg l(-1) and against A. parasiticus in the ranges 46-55.5, 101-175, 260-425 and 490-675mg l(-1), respectively, depending on environmental conditions. In A. flavus treatments ED90 were in the ranges 89.7-90.5, 770-860 and 820->1000mg l(-1) for cinnamaldehyde, carvacrol and cinnamon EO, and in A. parasiticus treatments in the ranges 89-91, 855->1000 and 900->1000mg l(-1), respectively. ED90 values for oregano EO against both species were >1000mg l(-1). Growth rates of both species were higher at 37 than at 25 degrees C and at 0.99 than at 0.96 a(w). Aflatoxin production was higher at 25 than at 37 degrees C. Stimulation of aflatoxin production was observed at low doses except for cinnamaldehyde treatments. The effectiveness of EOs and their main constituents to inhibit fungal growth and aflatoxin production in contact assays was lower than in vapour phase assays using bioactive EVOH-EO films previously reported.
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