“…Alternaria mycotoxins have been frequently isolated from raw and processed fruits, vegetables, and oilseeds infected by Alternaria rot such as tomato products (Bottalico & Logrieco, 1998;Fente, Jaimez, Vázquez, Franco, & Cepeda, 1998;da Motta & Valente Soares, 2001;Ostry, 2008;Patriarca, Azcarate, Terminiello, & Fernández, 2007;Terminiello, Patriarca, Pose, & Fernández, 2006), olives (Visconti, Logrieco, & Bottalico, 1986), citrus fruits (Magnani, De Souza, & Rodrigues-Filho, 2007), cereals (Azcarate, Patriarca, Terminiello, & Fernández, 2008;Mansfield, Archibald, Jones, & Kuldau, 2007;Medina et al, 2006), apples and apple juice (Delgado & Gómez-Cordovés, 1998;Jackson & Al-Taher, 2008), carrots (Solfrizzo, de Girolamo, Vitti, Visconti, & van den Bulk, 2004), pepper, melon (Bottalico & Logrieco, 1998), sunflower (Pozzi et al, 2005) and oilseed rape (Visconti, Sibilia, & Sabia, 1992).…”