Microtoxins have caused numerous serious outbreaks worldwide, including acute poisonings from moldy rice, aflatoxicosis from contaminated rice, and outbreaks from sorghum and maize contaminated with fumonisin.

“microtoxins have caused many serious outbreaks worldwide there was an outbreak that occurred in 1967 and 26 people were poisoned now keep in mind there's a big difference between acute mycotoxin poisoning and chronic so primarily what we're seeing and what we're going to see like if you're working with some type of a functional medicine practitioner if they're testing you for mycotoxins to help investigate the root cause of your autoimmune disease or your fatigue problems or your mitochondrial issues or your depression or your anxiety that's more of a chronic exposure but in a very very high level if you get this big bolus of a moldy food you can get acutely sick also so this is talking about a study that was done i guess this happened in 67 where consumption of moldy rice for up to three weeks in taiwan 26 people were poisoned an outbreak of afla toxicosis affecting humans reported in india killed 100 people in 1974 another outbreak in 95 affected 40 over 1400 people due to sorghum and maize contaminated with fumanisin and then in 2004 another outbreak in kenya killed another 125 people”