Fungal sources
- Fusarium graminearum (roseum)
- Fusarium culmorum
- Fusarium nivale
- Fusarium poae
- Fusarium equiseti
- Fusarium crookwellense
- Fusarium acuminatum
- Fusarium sambucinum
Affected commodities
Corn (maize), wheat, barley, rice, rye, oats, walnut, tomato
Nivalenol (NIV)
Effects on animals
Nervosity, loss of appetite, deterioration in feed efficiency, diarrhoea, vomiting.
Poor assimilation of feed, decline in production and quality of milk, immune-system disorders.
Deterioration in feed efficiency, poor shell quality, decline in egg production.
15-0-acetyl-deoxynivalenol (15-DON)
Effects on animalsNervosity, loss of appetite, deterioration in feed efficiency, diarrhoea, vomiting, refusal to eat.
Poor assimilation of feed, decline in production and quality of milk, immune-system disorders.
Deterioration in feed efficiency, poor shell quality, decline in egg production.
Deoxynivalenol (DON)
Effects on animals
Nervosity, loss of appetite, deterioration in feed efficiency, diarrhoea, vomiting, refusal to eat.
In the absence of acidosis, partial detoxification of DON into DOM-1 by protozoa followed by a fall in the protozoa population, poor assimilation of feed, decline in production and quality of milk, immune-system disorders.
Deterioration in feed efficiency, poor shell quality, decline in egg production.