Table 1.

Summary of recently conducted reviews on mycotoxin toxicology involving humans and livestock, as well as control/removal strategies.

Objectives of Literature Review	Key Sections	References
This review discussed mycotoxin toxicities from the perspective of consumer health safety concerns, as well as mitigation/treatment strategies	Toxicology, consumer health safety concerns, and actions of mycotoxins; toxic effects of combined mycotoxins exposure; major mycotoxin effects on infants and children; complications/risks of mycotoxin exposure at various stages of human life; consumer health implications of mycotoxin exposure; mitigation/removal strategies of mycotoxin toxicities	Awuchi, Nwozo, et al. [5]
This review introduced the natural occurrence of Alternaria mycotoxins, as well as their toxicity, metabolism, and analytical methods	Toxicity of Alternaria mycotoxins, metabolism of Alternaria mycotoxins, Alternaria mycotoxin analysis	Chen, Mao, et al. [10]
This review revisited how mycotoxins affect animals, foods, humans, and plants, specific to types, toxicity, prevention measures, and strategies for detoxification and removal	Major groups of mycotoxins: occurrence, production, and toxicities; mycotoxin prevention, decontamination, and detoxification approaches	Awuchi, Ondari, et al. [18]
This review discussed the co-occurrence of masked mycotoxins, as well as their sampling and extraction, and the suitability of LC–MS/MS for accurate and precise analysis/detection	Recent challenges in the analysis of mycotoxins; analytical techniques and extraction of mycotoxins from food samples	Iqbal [11]
This review summarized the occurrence of mycotoxins, their toxic effects, and the detoxifying agents with emphasis on deoxynivalenol in pig production	Mycotoxin occurrence; mycotoxin toxicity; mycotoxin-detoxifying agents	Holanda and Kim [21]
This study reviewed the information reported on the toxic effects of the most relevant/studied Fusarium toxins and their modified forms over the last few year	Metabolism of DON, T-2, HT-2, and ZEN toxins, as well as their modified forms	Pierzgalski et al. [14]
This review comprehensively summarized the latest (target and nontarget) knowledge of qualitative and quantitative analysis for modified mycotoxins, elucidating their major transformation mechanisms	Status of global mycotoxin contamination; transformation of the modified mycotoxins; analysis strategy of modified mycotoxins and metabolites; challenges in modified mycotoxins	Lu, Qin, et al. [15]
This review summarized the occurrence and toxicological aspects of major Aspergillus-derived mycotoxins	Food toxicology and molecular mechanism of mycotoxins; occurrence of Aspergillus-derived mycotoxins in the feed and food chain; prevention strategies of mycotoxicoses; medical aspects of Aspergillus-derived mycotoxins	Ráduly, Szabó, et al. [17]
This review provided the most important mycotoxins in crops/finished fish feed, i.e., aflatoxins, fumonisins, ochratoxins, trichothecenes, and zearalenone	Mycotoxin contamination of fish feed; aflatoxins and their precursors; fumonisins; ochratoxin; trichothecenes; zearalenone; co-contamination by different mycotoxins	Oliveira and Vasconcelos [16]
This review summarized the most predominant types of mycotoxins, the factors affecting their production, and the methods used for their extraction and cleanup from foodstuffs	Types of mycotoxins; factors affecting mycotoxin production; detection of mycotoxins	Elkenany and Awad [13]
This study assessed the presence of aflatoxigenic fungi and mycotoxins in foods, as well as their occurrence, control, and socioeconomic and health implications, from a food safety and quality perspective	Uses of fungi; cultured foods; types of aflatoxigenic fungi; mycotoxins produced by aflatoxigenic fungi; major groups of mycotoxins in foods; health implications of eaten foods contaminated by mycotoxins; economic implications of mycotoxins in foods; prevention and control of mycotoxins in foods	Adeyeye [12]