
%0 Journal Article
%A Hocking, Ailsa 
%A Leong, Su-lin 
%A Pitt, John 
%T Ochratoxin A: a new challenge for Australia's grape products industries?
%J Microbiology Australia
%D 2003/09/01
%V 24
%N 3
%P 16-17
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/MA03316
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MA03316 
%X Ochratoxin A (OA) was first isolated from Aspergillus ochraceus in 1965 in a laboratory study searching for new toxic metabolites from moulds. At the time, there was no connection with any animal or human disease. OA was found as a natural contaminant of maize in 1969 in the USA and, about the same time, studies were being conducted in Scandinavia on a kidney disease in pigs which appeared to be related to mouldy feed. These studies showed that OA was the cause of the disease now known as porcine nephropathy. 
