Feed Safety

Theme Mycotoxins

New insights to controlling mycotoxin danger in ducks

Young ducklings are particularly sensitive to aflatoxin and ducks are about 200 times more sensitive than broilers and layers. Metabolites of these toxins can enter the food chain through animal products. Therefore, the aflatoxins should already be found in the feed. In Thailand the effect of glucomannans as a binding agent was studies.

This article can also be found at Feed Tech, volume 6, no. 1

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New insights to controlling mycotoxin danger in ducks.pdf


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