Most food crops are contaminated with fungal mycotoxins.

Watch the video to find out how much of a problem this may be.

In France, exposure to the dietary contaminants was compared between vegetarians and meat

eaters, and the results showed that exposures to persistent organic pollutants like PCBs

and dioxins was dramatically lower among those eating, more plant-based, due to that non-consumption

of foods of animal origins.

Though they did have higher estimated exposure to some mycotoxins,

fungal toxins present in moldy food.

Now, there are lots of types of mold on the planet, and the vast majority are harmless,

but over the last several years, certain mold toxins, such as aflatoxin and okra toxin,

have been popping up in breakfast cereals.

Hundreds of samples were taken off store shelves, and about half were contaminated with

okrotoxin, for example.

But those were store shelves in Pakistan.

And Pakistan has a subtropical climate with monsoons and flash floods leading to fungal propagation.

But then similar results have popped up in Europe, Serbia, Spain, Portugal. Then, mycotoxins were discovered in breakfast cereals in Canada.

What about breakfast cereals in the United States?

144 samples were collected, and similar to other countries, about half,

were found to contain okrotoxin, but only about 7% exceeded the maximum limit established

by the European Commission.

What is the significance of the finding of okrotoxin in breakfast cereals from the United States?

This was the largest study to date, including nearly 500 samples of cereal off-store shelves

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