Mass Spectrometry-Based Detection of Mycotoxins in Imported Meat and Their Perspective Role on Myocardial Apoptosis

Maged Al Ansari; Fahad A Al Abbasi; Salman Hosawi; Mirza Rafi Baig; Sultan Alhayyani; Vikas Kumar; Turky Omar Asar; Firoz Anwar

doi:10.2174/0929867330666230609100707

Mass Spectrometry-Based Detection of Mycotoxins in Imported Meat and Their Perspective Role on Myocardial Apoptosis

Curr Med Chem. 2023 Jun 9. doi: 10.2174/0929867330666230609100707. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Maged Al Ansari¹, Fahad A Al Abbasi¹, Salman Hosawi¹, Mirza Rafi Baig¹, Sultan Alhayyani², Vikas Kumar³, Turky Omar Asar⁴, Firoz Anwar¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
² Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences & Arts, King Abdulaziz University, Rabigh King Abdulaziz University.
³ Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shalom Institute of Health and Allied Sciences. SHUATS, Naini, Prayagraj, India.
⁴ Department of Biology, College of Science and Arts at Alkamil, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

PMID: 37303172
DOI: 10.2174/0929867330666230609100707

Abstract

Background: Fungal mycotoxins are the secondary metabolite and are harmful to plants, animals, and humans. Common aflatoxins present and isolated from feeds and food comprises aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, and G2. Public health threats or risk of foodborne disease posed by mycotoxins, especially the export or import of such meat products are of primary concern. This study aims to determine the concentration of the level of aflatoxins B1, B2, G1, G2 M1, and M2 respectively in imported burger meat.

Method: The present work is designed to select and collect the various sample of meat products from different sources and subjected to mycotoxin analysis by LCMS/MS. Random selection was made on sites of burger meat that was for sale.

Results: Simultaneous presence of several mycotoxins in the same sample of imported meat under the set conditions of LCMS/MS detected 26% (18 samples) were positive for various mycotoxins. The most frequent mycotoxins proportion in the analyzed samples was aflatoxin B1 (50%) followed by aflatoxin G1 (44%), aflatoxin G2 (38.8%), aflatoxin B2 (33%) respectively were least among all with 16.66 and 11.11%.

Discussion: A positive correlation is deduced between CVD and mycotoxin present in burger meat. Isolated mycotoxins initiate death receptor-mediated apoptosis, death receptor-mediated necrosis, mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis, mitochondrial-mediated necrosis, and immunogenic cell deaths through various pathways that can damage the cardiac tissues.

Conclusion: The presence of these toxins in such samples is just the tip of the iceberg. Further investigation is necessary for complete clarifications of toxins on human health especially on CVD and other related metabolic complications.

Keywords: Burger; CVD; Imported meat; LCMSMS; Mycotoxins; Myocardial apoptosis.