Table 2.
Overview of recently (< 10 years) reported Alternaria toxin occurrence data in food as determined by LC-MS multi-analyte methods, grouped by conducted type of microfiltration. “n.d.” (not detected) indicates the respective toxin was included in the survey, but not found in any of the analyzed samples at levels above the LOD
| Filtration | Published by | Food matrices | Specification | Alternaria toxins include and % of positive samples | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AOH | AME | TeA | TEN | ALT | ATX-I | ALP | ||||
| PTFE | Janić Hajnal et al. (2015) | Wheat | - | 12 | 6 | 69 | - | - | - | - |
| López et al. (2016) | Wine, cereals, apple/tomato-based products, dried fruit, sunflower seeds, and seed oil | Overall | 7 | 5 | 22 | 15 | n.d. | - | - | |
| Tomato sauces | 50 | 50 | 100 | n.d. | n.d. | - | - | |||
| Puntscher et al. (2019b) | Wheat flour | 13 | 40 | 31 | 18 | - | 20 | 36 | ||
| PVDF | De Berardis et al. (2018) | Tomatoes and fruit-based products | - | n.d. | n.d. | 18 | n.d. | - | - | - |
| Prelle et al. (2013) | Apple juices, beers, tomato sauces, olives, dried basil | Overall | 24 | n.d. | 3 | 3 | 9 | - | - | |
| Tomato sauces | 50 | n.d. | n.d. | 10 | 80 | - | - | |||
| Nylon | Rodriguez-Carrasco et al. (2016) | Tomatoes/tomato-based products | - | 13 | 7 (< LOQ) | - | n.d. | - | - | - |
| Rubert et al. (2012) | Barley | - | n.d. | - | - | - | n.d. | - | - | |
| Juan et al. (2016) | Strawberries | - | 25 | 19 | - | n.d. | - | - | - | |
| RC | Hickert et al. (2016) | Tomato products, bakery products, sunflower seeds, fruit juices, vegetable oils | Tomato products | 71 | 79 | 91 | 26 | n.d. | n.d. | - |
| Unspecified | Gotthardt et al. (2019) | Infant foods | - | 32 | 92 | 89 | 84 | n.d. | 16 | 8 |
| Diana Di Mavungu et al. (2009) | Food supplements | - | n.d. | n.d. | - | - | n.d. | - | - | |
| Ssepuuya et al. (2018) | Sorghum | - | 2.5 | 1.6 | - | - | 0.07 | - | - | |
| Walravens et al. (2016) | Tomato products, fruit/vegetable juices | Tomato products | 71 | 54 | 100 | 64 | 50 | n.d. | - | |
| None | Noser et al. (2011) | Tomatoes/tomato-based products | - | 27 | 26 | 81 | 10 | 2 | n.d. | - |
| Qiao et al. (2018) | Cherries/cherry-based products | - | 35 | 42 | 76 | 49 | 31 | - | - | |
| Zhao et al. (2015) | Tomato- and citrus-based products | Citrus-based food or fresh tomatoes | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | n.d. | - | - | - | |
| Tomato products | 35 | 88 | 100 | 73 | - | - | - | |||
| Puntscher et al. (2019b) | Tomato sauces, sunflower seed oil | Tomato products | 30 | 55 | 71 | 11 | - | 23 | 21 | |