Mycotoxins
are a class of secondary metabolites with high toxicity produced by filamentous
fungi, which can widely contaminate various crops and food. Since trace
mycotoxins can seriously endanger human health and food matrices are complex,
the analytical procedures, including sample preparation and detection, are
tedious, time-consuming and costly.. Therefore, it is important to establish a
sensitive, simple and stable method for the detection of mycotoxins in the food
matrix. Molecularly imprinted polymers possess the features of structure predictability,
specificity, high stability, etc., which can effectively simplify the operation
process, reduce the cost as well as improve the detection sensitivity when
applied in the pretreatment of food samples and the detection of trace harmful
substances in food. In this review, the recent advances in the application and
preparation methods of MIPs in sample pretreatment of food contaminated by
mycotoxins, mycotoxin chromatographic analysis and mycotoxin bionic sensors
were summarized. And some perspectives of MIPs based mycotoxin detection are
proposed as well