{"id":299,"date":"2011-10-27T13:47:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T13:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/?p=299"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:05:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:05:42","slug":"how-dangerous-is-mould-bu-lecturer-talks-to-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2011\/10\/27\/how-dangerous-is-mould-bu-lecturer-talks-to-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"How dangerous is mould? BU lecturer talks to the Guardian."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_300\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2011\/10\/mouldy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-300\" class=\" wp-image-300\" src=\"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/files\/2011\/10\/mouldy-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mould can be potentially fatal, BU&#039;s Philipa Hudson tells the Guardian<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If left for too long they can cause liver cancer apparently- Phillipa Hudson Senior Lecturer in Food Safety at BU told the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Philippa Hudson, senior lecturer in food safety at Bournemouth University, admits that she would only remove a centimetre or so beyond the surface mould to continue eating a product. Stating that is just our harmless old friend <em>Penicillium<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it&#8217;s important to say that not all of the <em>Penicillium<\/em> moulds are safe,&#8221; she adds. &#8220;Some of them do produce toxins and you can&#8217;t necessarily tell which are the bad ones by looking at them. It&#8217;s not as if all green moulds are good, all white moulds are good and all brown ones are to be avoided.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How dangerous can moulds be? &#8220;Seriously dangerous,&#8221; she says. &#8220;The\u00a0genus <em>Aspergillus<\/em>, which grows on peanuts and peanut products, produces a group of toxins called aflatoxins. They can cause liver cancer \u2013 and cooking won&#8217;t destroy them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you want to read the full article on the dangers of mould, visit the Guardian website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2011\/oct\/26\/food-mould-safe-or-toxic\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If left for too long they can cause liver cancer apparently- Phillipa Hudson Senior Lecturer in Food Safety at BU told the Guardian. Philippa Hudson, senior lecturer in food safety at Bournemouth University, admits that she would only remove a centimetre or so beyond the surface mould to continue eating a product. Stating that is&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/2011\/10\/27\/how-dangerous-is-mould-bu-lecturer-talks-to-the-guardian\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about How dangerous is mould? BU lecturer talks to the Guardian.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[24,107,119],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-mould","tag-philipa-hudson"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2832,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/tourism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}