Maria Papageorgiou, Liz Wells, Courtney Williams, Kay White, Barbara De Santis, Yunru Liu, Francesca Debegnach, Brunella Miano, Giorgio Moretti, Stephanie Greetham, Carlo Brera, Stephen L Atkin, Laura J Hardie, Thozhukat Sathyapalan
Deoxynivalenol (DON), the mycotoxin produced mainly by Fusarium graminearum and found in contaminated cereal-based foodstuff, has been consistently detected in body fluids in adults. Available data in children and adolescents are scarce. This study assessed urinary DON concentrations in children aged 3-9 years ( n = 40) and adolescents aged 10-17 years ( n = 39) in the UK. Morning urine samples were collected over two consecutive days and analysed for free DON (un-metabolised form), DON-glucuronides (DON-GlcA), deepoxy deoxynivalenol (DOM-1), and total DON (sum of free DON, DON-GlcA, and DOM-1)...
January 23, 2018: Toxins