What do the Clean, Low, Watch and Swap levels mean?

They are cut from a continuous concern level the app computes from the sourced claims that the chosen evidence lens shows: each claim counts its concern class, tier weight, confidence and dose relevance, combined worst-first with a decay so one serious finding outweighs many small ones, then scaled by how much of the substance reaches you in this use. Clean is below 0.35, Low below 1.1, Watch below 2.0 and Swap above that, on a 0 to 3 scale.

Is Fumonisin B1 safe in food and drink?

Q: Is fumonisin b1 safe in food and drink?

Under the app's default Cautious lens, fumonisin b1 in food and drink rates Swap: the app would put this near the top of your swap plan. 2 sourced concerns count (suspected carcinogen, consensus tier; metabolic, consensus tier). This is research with sources, not medical advice.

Food processing1 use researched2 sourced claims

Where it turns up: mycotoxin from mold on maize. Detox My Life researched fumonisin b1 under one use, because the same substance means something different in each use. Every claim below carries its evidence tier, how sure the research is that it applies here, and the sources it cites. The level is computed by the app's own deterministic engine, so the page says exactly what the app would.

Level by use and lens

Use	Mainstream	Cautious (default)	Based	Concerns · favour · fringe
Eaten or drunk	Swap	Swap	Swap	2 · 0

Mainstream shows consensus claims only; Cautious adds emerging research; Based adds fringe claims, labelled as such. The last column counts, under Cautious, the sourced concerns, the findings in its favour and the fringe claims Based would add.

Safer swaps: the app's swap catalog has no entry tied to this ingredient yet. When you scan a product that contains it, the app suggests cleaner alternative types for that product; the swap categories list what the catalog covers today.

Eaten or drunk Swap

Under the default Cautious lens fumonisin b1 in food and drink rates Swap: the app would put this near the top of your swap plan. Mainstream (consensus only) rates it Swap; Based (adds the fringe) rates it Swap. Researched 2026-09-03.

Sourced concerns (2)

ConsensusSuspected carcinogenconfidence 100%

Fumonisin B1 is classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B) based on sufficient evidence in experimental animals, and epidemiological studies have associated chronic ingestion of fumonisin B1 with an increased risk of esophageal cancer in human populations.

Why here: Fumonisin B1 is a common mycotoxin contaminant of maize and other cereals, leading to human exposure through the ingestion of contaminated food products.
What would have to be true: Human exposure occurs through the ingestion of contaminated maize products, with regulatory guidance levels for total fumonisins in corn-based foods for human consumption, such as 150 ppb (0.15 mg/kg) for FB1 in the US.

Sources the engine cites:

FUMONISIN B1 (IARC Summary & Evaluation, Volume 82, 2002) - Inchem.org (2002) · regulator or public body
FUMONISIN B1 - Some Traditional Herbal Medicines, Some Mycotoxins, Naphthalene and Styrene - NCBI — nih.gov (2002) · regulator or public body
Fumonisin B(1): a neurotoxic mycotoxin - PubMed — nih.gov (2012) · regulator or public body
Guidance for Industry: Fumonisin Levels in Human Foods and Animal Feeds | FDA — fda.gov (2018) · regulator or public body
1 web article (wikipedia.org), linked in the app.
2 community or commercial pages, not counted here.

ConsensusMetabolicconfidence 100%

Ingestion of fumonisin B1 can disrupt sphingolipid metabolism and has been linked to hepatotoxicity and nephrotoxicity in animals, and in humans, chronic exposure has been associated with liver and kidney disease, and neural tube defects.

Why here: Fumonisin B1 is a mycotoxin found in contaminated food products, primarily maize, which is ingested by humans.
What would have to be true: Tolerable daily intake (TDI) for fumonisins (FB1, FB2, FB3) has been established by the WHO/JECFA at 2 µg/kg body weight per day, and by EFSA at 1.0 µg/kg body weight per day.

Sources the engine cites:

Fumonisin B(1): a neurotoxic mycotoxin - PubMed — nih.gov (2012) · regulator or public body
Occurrence and Risk Assessment of Fumonisin B1 and B2 Mycotoxins in Maize-Based Food Products in Hungary - PMC — nih.gov (2020) · regulator or public body
Fumonisin Toxicity and Mechanism of Action: Overview and Current Perspectives - J-Stage — go.jp (2013) · review
Appropriateness to set a group health‐based guidance value for fumonisins and their modified forms — dtu.dk (2018) · review
1 web article (wikipedia.org), linked in the app.
2 community or commercial pages, not counted here.

Not researched here

The engine has no dossier for fumonisin b1 when cooked with heat, in cold food, as a finishing ingredient, in heated food packaging or other uses. The app researches an ingredient for the use it infers from your product, so a scan fills these in; this page only shows what has already been researched and source-verified.

This is research, not medical advice. Detox My Life shows sourced claims sorted by evidence tier. It does not diagnose, treat, or tell you to start or stop anything. Talk to a qualified professional about your health.

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