Decontamination of Microtoxins in Foods

Micotoxins in plant base dietary supplements. Highest microtoxin concentrations were found in milk thistle based supplements. Wine source from the united states also appears to have particularly high levels. Decontamination, removing the toxin and wine now,. ideally we'd try to prevent the contamination in the first place. But since this isn't always practical, there is increased focus on finding effective methods of detoxification of microtoxins already present in foods. And that's where yeast comes in as a promising solution. Because the microtoxin bind to the yeast cell wall. The thought is you could strain out the yeast but another approach would be to eat something like nutritional yeast to prevent the