“…Traces of OTA have been also found in human milk (Mantle, 2002;Turconi et al, 2004;Mantle, 2002, Turconi et al, 2004. With regard to ruminants' milk, several studies have demonstrated that OTA can be hydrolysed by rumen microflora and rumen pH to a less toxic metabolite, the ochratoxin α (Boudra & Morgavi, 2006;Sørensen & Elboek, 2005;Boudra and Morgavi, 2006;Sørensen and Elboek, 2005). So bovine milk should not be considered as an important source of OTA.…”