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Apurva; I would like to share my previous experience in the use of both materials in Poultry Feed. Bentonite has been used in the past as an ingredient to agglutinate other ingredients in the formulation. This was used mainly in formulas difficult to pelletize having a certain quantities of by-products instead cereals. HSCAS later were introduced as an aflatoxin binder due to the high cationic i ...

HSCASs, zeolite powders, can be good binders however, there is variability within the family as to their binding ability. Many binders are good at low pH (pH 3.0 for example), but may not be effective at a higher pH such as found in the gut where bile salts raise the pH. Mycotoxins that were bound at the lower pH may disassociate from the binder when introduced into an environment with a higher p ...