Mycotoxins Technical Articles
Article published the September 19, 2019:
1. Introduction
Mycotoxins are produced by molds under specific conditions, such as high humidity, poor agricultural practices, or damaged and contaminated crops. Although the presence of molds on grains does ...
Article published the September 19, 2019:
Introduction
Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites of low molecular weights produced by certain strains of filamentous fungi such as Aspergillus, Fusarium and Penicillium, which invade crops in the field and ma...
Article published the September 10, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
Dietary mycotoxin contamination is an area of great concern for different organisms (Abdelhamid, 2019a & b). It negatively affects the immune system, gut development (Mass, 2018), digestion an...
Article published the September 9, 2019:
Welcome to the 2019 series of monthly weather and mycotoxin reports provided by Adisseo’s mycotoxin specialists with the support of Novak Weather Consultants.
We are now entering a critical stage i...
Article published the July 31, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
The aflatoxins are group of closely related fungal secondary metabolites produced by certain strains of Genus Aspergillus. The aflatoxins are reported to be carcinogenic, mutagenic and teratogenic...
Article published the July 31, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
Poultry farming has metamorphosed into an organized industry in recent past and registered a rapid growth over last three decades in India. Many problems are continuously challenging against succe...
Article published the July 30, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
Aflatoxin is the common name for a group of chemically related compounds (Moss, 1996) produced by certain strains of Aspergillus flavus and A. parasiticus in the feedstuffs as poisonous secondary...
Article published the July 26, 2019:
Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a mycotoxin produced mainly by Aspergillus ochraceus and Penicillium verrucosum. The family of ochratoxins consists of 3 members, viz. ochratoxin A, B and C but ochratoxin A is the most to...
Article published the July 26, 2019:
INTRODUCTION
The worldwide occurrence of mycotoxins producing fungi and their ability to grow on the variety of economical important cereal crops have rendered them as unavoidable contaminants of human and ani...
Article published the July 25, 2019:
The presence of ochratoxin A in poultry feed causes significantly to health disorders and decreases production. In a survey conducted to investigate global occurrence of mycotoxins, the incidence of OTA in Sout...