Alltech's Latest Weapon in the Fight Against Mycotoxins
Published:March 5, 2013
Summary
Alltech has utilised almost 30 years of experience in the area of glycomics, the science of sugars, and its ownership and production of novel carbohydrate sources, along with real progress in the area of mycotoxin evaluation, to develop Mycosorb A + , the next generation mycotoxin binder. This, in addition to a revised and improved Mycotoxin Management Program, will revolutionise the mycoto...
A questions, actually two. I do not really see information how the absorbtion of mycotoxins should work. Can somebody from Alltech explain the mode of action and which substances changed to get the eventually desired effects? Second, the group M registration in the EU will be the measurement in the future for product making claims on mycotoxins. What position has Alltech to this registration and why there is so far no dossier submitted?
As I understand, the new technology is described in the recent US patent 8,318,475, Yiannikouris, et al., November 27, 2012. It teaches "culturing Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells in growth medium which comprises from 1% to 2.0% by weight of bentonite".