Risk Assessment of Mycotoxins by Food Safety Commission, JAPAN

Abstract

  In Japan, the Food Safety Commission (FSC) is an organization conducting the risk assessment on food safety in a scientific, independent and fair manner. FSC has 12 Expert Committees that operate to either implement risk assessments on individual hazards such as food additives, pesticides and so on. Expert Committee for mycotoxins and natural toxins is one of those committees, which is in charge on risk assessments of mycotoxins in foods. Until now, this committee has published the risk assessment reports on total aflatoxins, deoxynivalenol and nivalenol, ochratoxin A, aflatoxin M₁ in milk and aflatoxin B₁ in feeds, ochratoxin A, and fumonisins.

  In this paper, discussions on the risk assessments of deoxynivalenol, nivalenol, aflatoxin M₁ in milk, aflatoxin B₁ in feeds, ochratoxin A and fumonisins are reviewed.