MYCOTOXIN BINDING FOOD AND FEED ADDITIVES AND PROCESSING AIDS, FUNGISTATIC AND BACTERIOSTATIC PLANT PROTECTING AGENTS AND METHODS OF UTILIZING THE SAME

摘要

Method is proposed useful to render harmless mycotoxins that contaminate food, animal feed and assist infection of plant hosts by microbial parasites, comprising binding mycotoxins by a novel adsorbent, consisting partially or in full of plant lignocellulosic biomass or isolated biomass components, e.g., acid hydrolysis lignin, enzymatic hydrolysis lignin, coniferous and deciduous wood, bark and needle particles, rice hulls, used coffee grounds, apricot stone shells, almond, walnut, sunflower hulls, cocoa and peanut shells. The materials may be further improved through genetic modification of plants and physicochemical treatment of lignocellulosic biomass, such as micronization. The resulting adsorbent can bind wide range of mycotoxins, including mycotoxins difficult to bind (Ochratoxin, T-2, Deoxynivalenol, Nivalenol). Ability of porous materials containing lignin to thermally collapse at melting can be used to irreversibly entrap mycotoxins by adsorbing them in a wet system and then closing lignin pore structure under high-temperature treatment, such as drying.