Extensive literature searches on bromine and ochratoxin A in feed

Two Extensive Literature Searches (ELSs) by using PubMed, Web of Science (WoS) and SciFinder forrelevant studies on Ochratoxin A (OTA) and bromine, bromate and bromide (BRs) in feed wereperformed. Search queries allowed to obtain a total number of 8,953 and 34,183 references for OTAand BRs, respectively. The relevance analysis of the documents was performed by screening titles andabstracts against inclusion and exclusion criteria. Relevant references accounted in each Area, for OTAand BRs, were respectively: Area 1 (Information on analytical techniques for quantification) 117 and117 documents, respectively; Area 2 (Information on occurrence/concentrations and formation) 176and 176 documents, respectively; Area 3 (Information on exposure of farm and companion animals) 31and 3 documents, respectively; Area 4 (Information on toxicokinetics (absorption, distribution,metabolism, excretion) in farm and companion animals) 37 and 8 documents, respectively; Area 5(Information on toxicity of OTA/BRs in farm and companion animals) 249 and 23 documents,respectively; Area 6 (Information on the transfer of OTA/BRs from feed to animal derived food) 18 and4 documents. A total number of 618 and 100 relevant non-redundant documents was found for OTAand BRs, respectively. Those results were obtained after the full text analysis of all the documentpreviously labelled as relevant.