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Counteracting zearalenone contamination in pig feeds

Are mycotoxins really present in animal feeds? Are swine affected by them? To keep it short and simple: Yes! Mycotoxins indeed exist in cereals harvested worldwide and pigs are generally known to be the most sensitive species to mycotoxins, especially zearalenone.
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Better scrutiny of mycotoxins with holistic approach of feedstuffs

The significant research focus on mycotoxins in recent years has dramatically increased our awareness and understanding of mycotoxin nature, occurrence and impact on modern animal production. Mycotoxins in feedstuffs represent an unavoidable risk due largely to environmental factors. As a result, analytical tools using a holistic approach are needed to understand multiple mycotoxin contamination patterns. Application of Alltech’s 37+ Program can be used as surveillance radar to monitor the overall level of mycotoxins present and estimate the level of risk associated with contamination. read more >

Mycotoxin Survey Program 2011

Biomin has carried out extensive work collecting information on the occurrence of mycotoxins by starting a special mycotoxin survey program in the year 2005. This report provides an insight on the distribution of mycotoxins as well as their levels of occurrence in certain feedstuffs/feeds of different regions from January to December 2011. read more >

EFSA renews seven guidances

EFSA has renewed seven guidances at one time. They have given the older ones a critical review and made several changes. Although it has not been a fundamental revision, some of the changes have an important impact on the requirements to register a feed additive, leading to potential big differences in costs. Therefore the new guidances should be studied very well when registering a feed additive in the European Union. read more >

Evaluating mycotoxin binders with ducklings

Contrary to common belief, aflatoxins are still present in many feed components and by-products worldwide. A number of companies claim that their products efficiently minimise this animal and public health risk by mycotoxin binding. A new tool using ducklings as testing animals allows evaluation of mycotoxin binders in ‘real-life’ conditions. This highly reproducible model allows the comparison of toxin binders for their efficacy in ‘real life’ conditions, highlighting wide differences of performances in this model. read more >

EFSA director: 'We are not there to please everybody'

Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle recently started her second five-year mandate as executive director of the European Food Safety Authority, better known as EFSA. Her main concern for the coming years is to maintain and improve the scientific expertise of EFSA in an environment of continuous pressure on feed and food safety budgets in member states. read more >
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