European food safety authorities have prioritized control of tropane and pyrrolizidine alkaloids due to an exponential increase in related food alerts. This mini-review, authored by Natalia Casado Navas and harvested from e-cienciaDatos, provides an overview of these alerts and analytical advances from 2020 to 2023. It highlights the main food products frequently contaminated with these natural toxins.
Use Cases
- Tracking trends in food contamination alerts based on the review of European food safety incidents
- Identifying high-risk food products based on the described main contaminated food categories
- Reviewing recent analytical methodologies for toxin detection based on the summary of advances from 2020-2023
Strengths
- Focuses on a high-priority European food safety issue with an exponential increase in alerts
- Covers a defined and recent three-year period from 2020 to 2023
- Synthesizes information on both alert trends and analytical method advances
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Provenance
- Source
- e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Likely a literature review and synthesis of public food safety alerts and scientific publications.
- Time Range
- 2020 to 2023
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-14 04:10:08; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Europe