Response to letter to the editor on 'Fumonisin contamination and fumonisin producing black Aspergilli in dried vine fruits of different origin published in International Journal of Food Microbiology, 143:143-149'

摘要

Since the discovery of a fumonisin gene cluster in the genome of Aspergillus niger (Pel et al., 2007), and proving fumonisin producing abilities of this species (Frisvad et al., 2007), several laboratories have been involved in examining the role of black Aspergilli in potential fumonisin contamination of various food products ( [Noonim et al., 2009], [Mogensen et al., 2010], [Logrieco et al., 2009] and [Knudsen et al., 2011]). Among other groups, we clarified that black Aspergilli including A. niger and Aspergillus awamori are responsible for fumonisin contamination of dried vine fruits (Varga et al., 2010). In a recent letter to the editor, Nielssen and Logrieco (in press) criticized several aspects of the work we carried out on identifying black Aspergilli potentially responsible for fumonisin contamination of dried vine fruits.