Research progress of biosensors for aflatoxin detection
Aflatoxins are a group of toxic secondary metabolites produced by fungi such as Aspergillus flavus and A.parasiticus,which are widely found in agricultural products and feedstuffs and pose a great health risk to ani-mals and humans.Their control and quantification in agricultural products is therefore extremely important.Biosen-sors are a rapid detection technology with high sensitivity,high selectivity,simple operation and easy miniaturisa-tion,and play an important role in aflatoxin detection.This paper describes the principles,types and progress of re-search on the application of biosensors to aflatoxin detection,and its future perspectives.