29/6/2005 - 1/7/2005, Baden (Austria)
The ILSI Europe Natural Toxins Task Force invited a group of experts to meet in Baden, Austria, to discuss the significance of scientific data on occurrence and public health significance of Ochratoxin A (OTA) in food.
46 international delegates representing different scientific disciplines experienced an interesting and stimulating meeting that comprised plenary lectures and ad hoc working groups addressing the occurrence of OTA on foods and methods of prevention, exposure data and possible biomarkers of exposure, the epidemiology of human diseases associated with OTA and last but not least the emerging insights into the potential genotoxic and epigenetic mechanisms that may be involved in DNA damage and the carcinogenicity of this mycotoxin.
The full proceedings of this workshop have been published as a special issue of Food Additives and Contaminants in January 2006.