Extensive literature search for studies related to fumonisins and their modified forms

An extensive literature search to identify and collect all studies related to fumonisins and their modified forms was performed in the two databases PubMed and Web of Science for nine Areas. After combination of the searches from the two databases and removal of the duplicates, the total number of hits for Area 1 was 4456, for Area 2 was 2261, for Area 3 was 1649, for Area 4 was 3555, for Area 5 was 1632, for Area 6 was 2424, for Area 7 was 5087, for Area 8 was 3284, and for Area 9 was 3283. The evaluation of all retrieved references for relevance by screening the title and (if available) and applying eligibility criteria (inclusion/exclusion) resulted in a total number of relevant references for Area 1 of 532, for Area 2 of 114, for Area 3 of 273, for Area 4 of 87, for Area 5 of 138, for Area 6 of 38, for Area 7 of 270, for Area 8 of 709, and for Area 9 of 270. This publication is linked to the following EFSA Journal article: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2903/j.efsa.2018.5172/full