**3.4. Biological degradation**

Physical and chemical degradation methods have some confines such as losses in the nutritional value, limited efficacy and safety issues, in addition of these shortcomings costly equipment required to accomplish these techniques. Biological degradations are considered superb as it works under environment friendly conditions. Microbial degradations of mycotoxins are also preferred, since it can be a specific, efficient, environment friendly, irreversible and non-toxic. Degradation of mycotoxins using fungi are not considered a best choice because of its complicated procedures and long incubation time. However, bacterial degradation of mycotoxins has promising applications due to the high degradation rate and wide reaction conditions. Detoxification process using probiotic bacteria is also trying, which can be directly applied in the foodstuffs. Furthermore, the use of enzymes appears to be an auspicious choice for detoxification of mycotoxins [94, 95].
