Abstract: Mycotoxins are ubiquitous in agricultural products and their derivatives. Mycotoxins poses severe health threats to humans and animals and thus have received increasing attention. This necessitates the detoxification of mycotoxins in foods. Traditional detoxification methods are easy to operate and widely applied, but have limitations. Therefore, more efficient and stable methods are needed to detoxify mycotoxins. Nanomaterials have attracted extensive attention due to their large specific surface area, many active sites and high stability, and intensive research has demonstrated that nanomaterials hold great potential in detoxifying mycotoxins in foods. In this article, we summarize the current status of mycotoxin pollution and the limit standards for mycotoxins, and focus on recent progress in the application of nanomaterials in mycotoxin detoxification. Next, we elaborate the properties and detoxification mechanisms of nanomaterials in various applications, discuss problems associated with nanomaterials in the detoxification of mycotoxins, and forecast future development trends. Through this review, we hope to provide a reference for the development of new nanomaterials for mycotoxin detoxification.

Key words: nanomaterials; mycotoxins; detoxification; adsorption; degradation; foods