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Batch Screening vs. Individual Lot Testing
Batch sampling and testing with ELISA kits has long been a popular solution to the practical challenges of monitoring and documenting mycotoxin levels in incoming shipments of raw materials intending for export or food and feed products. The appeal of this strategy stems from its budget and efficiency advantages. By running a large number of samples from a series of...
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The Business Value Officially Validated Mycotoxin Test Methods
As the cleanup approach of choice in an expanding range of officially validated mycotoxin test methods, immunoaffinity columns offer food and feed industry stakeholders a proven approach to minimizing the costly risks of analytic errors. Available in user-friendly fluorometric formats, VICAM's commercial immunoaffinity test kits are designed to...
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Innovet, Special Nutrients' representative in Thailand, was present at VIV Asia 2011....
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Introduction Laying hens are highly sensitive to aflatoxin toxicity. When fed aflatoxin contaminated feed there may be reduced egg production, egg weight, serum protein, serum albumin, and an increase in target organ weight, such as the liver and kidneys. In Southeast Asia where Aflatoxin is commonly found, producers regularly use mycotoxin binders in animal feed to prevent aflatoxicosis. Many producers believe...
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INTRODUCTION Aflatoxins are fungal secondary metabolites produced by certain Aspergillus species, among which aflatoxin B1 is the most harmful, as well as the most potent of the naturally occurring mycotoxins. Aflatoxins are highly toxic to humans and animals, like broilers (JONES & al 1982) and turkeys (RAUBER & al. 2007). They cause a variety of effects, including poor performance, liver pathology,...
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Fernando Tamames interviews Nick Nikooforsat of Agrovet Alliance at VIV Asia 2011. Agrovet is a distributor of Special Nutrients' products in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Arab Emirates and Kuwait....
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Objectives: I. To evaluate the efficiency of Pelcon on physical qualities of pelleted feed pertaining to: Appearance Strength as hardness & Durability Surface cracks Density & Solubility II. To assess the Performance Enhancing Ability of the feed manufacturing unit for: Rate of Production Power Consumption INTRODUCTION Since its origin, palletizing...
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This study was conducted to investigate the toxic effects of aflatoxin B 1 (AFB1) on mono-sex Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus fingerlings and attempting to detoxify these drastic effects by using some dietary supplements. Therefore, half percent of each of these supplements agents (namely, Bio-Buds-2x, chamomile flowers, aspirin and ginger) were added to aflatoxic (100 ppb aflatoxin B 1 ) diet for fingerlings. These diets were offered 6 days a week at 3% daily of actual...
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Natural clays are crystalline alumino-silicates characterized by their ably to exchange cations without major changes in structure. Zeolite and bentonite are the most common natural clays wed in rabbi production. Natural clays can be used as feed binders hi feed manufacturing. Natural clays can adsorb toxic products of digestion and decrease the accumulation of toxic substance in rabbit tissues, thus decreasing the incidence of internal disorders....
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Tests which are necessary to evaluate a proper and wide-spectrum product for mycotoxin counteraction, comprise in vitro evaluation of binders in case adsorption is the claimed strategy, or, in case of biotransformation it is crucial to evaluate the toxicity of metabolization products. In vivo trials are indispensable to test the efficacy of the products in practical conditions. Biomin has been always ahead in the counteraction of mycotoxins in...
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A trial was performed with castrated male hogs of the Belgian Landrace x Belgian Landrace, in the finishing stage, from 23 Kg. of weight to 90 Kg., during the 101 days of the test; feed consumed was based on corn-soybean with an average content of 5 ppm aflatoxin B1 (AB1) and 50 ppb of Ochratoxin; a parallel trial was carried with added TOXIBOND as a sequestering agent, and; a third one, with the mycotoxins in question absent was verified in the laboratory. 20 animals per treatment...
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Good day, Lately many binders like bentonites are being banned around the world. The organic binders have not experimented changes for the last 8 years, its absorption in Aflatoxin and Zea is good, contrary with T2 and other mycotoxins. Aluminosilicates present ambivalent results concerning dioxin and heavy metal contamination, which make absorption more difficult, cause they occupy the place where this process is developed. Clinoptilolite-Heulandite zeolites contrast in...
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Livestock enterprises faces the maximum loss is owed to the contamination of animal feed ingredients and compounded feeds by moulds and its toxic metabolites known as mycotoxin. Some of the primary toxigenic moulds and mycotoxins are indicated as following:
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Brazil has become the world leader in how to approach the problem of mycotoxins and anti-mycotoxin additives (AAM) in a very efficient and practical way. The most important issue for the Brazilian government is to protect the consumer (feed plant and/or producer) from the large supply of anti-mycotoxin additives that in most cases offered solutions without any scientific support.
The Brazilian government recognized the problem and formed a committee of experts that develop the...
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On 13 May 2009, the European Commission published a new regulation in the Official Journal, opening a new functional group under Regulation (EC) 1831/2003 for feed additives acting on the reduction of the contamination of feed by mycotoxins. This first amendment to the new Feed Additive Regulation, put in place in 2003, is not only a milestone regarding innovation by the European Union for the feed additive business, but also an important step forward in the integrated fight against...
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Aflatoxin and ochratoxin A can be found in a wide variety of commodities including cereals, nuts, dried fruit, herbs, spices and coffee when such foods are stored under adverse conditions of temperature and humidity. Over the years legislation for mycotoxins in food has increased to incorporate additional matrices and toxins, resulting in an increased demand for faster and less labour intensive tests to allow more analyses to be performed in a shorter time period. This has placed pressure on...
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I would like to ask the experts (especially chemists) who have studied the chemical properties of trichothecenes: Does ammoniation have any effect on trichothecenes (T-2 toxin, DON, satratoxin etc.)? Can ammonia detoxify trichothecenes at least to some extent, or is ammonia completely inert when mixed with trichothecene mycotoxins (i.e. no chemical reaction)? I have reviewed the scientific literature and I cant find any information on this. Ammoniation is mentioned (and in some...
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VICAM DONCheck TM Test Kit Brings Grain and Feed Operations Deoxynivalenol (DON) Results in as Little as Three Minutes
VICAM , a Waters Company and a world leader in food safety diagnostics, announced the launch of its first-generation screening tool for Deoxynivalenol (DON) in wheat, corn and barley, and common staple ingredients used to produce animal feeds. The DONCheck TM ...
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Charm Sciences, Inc. has released the first lateral flow quantitative test for T-2 and HT-2 toxins.
For use in the grain industry, the new ROSA® (Rapid One Step Assay) follows the same format that other Charm Mycotoxin tests use, as follows: Add the sample extract to the ROSA T2-HT2 test trip, incubate and count in the ROSA-M reader. Results are available in two ranges: 0-250 ppb, and 0 -2.5 ppm.
The Charm ROSA T2-HT2 provides a long-sought tool to rapidly and...
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VICAM’s AflaCheck™ Strip Test and AflaTest® Single Filter aflatoxin test methods receive USDA-GIPSA Certification for use by Official Grain Inspection System. VICAM, a world leader in food safety diagnostics, today announced that USDA-GIPSA has awarded certification to two of their rapid diagnostic methods for aflatoxin detection: AflaCheck™ and AflaTest® Single Filter methods. AflaCheck™ utilizes a lateral flow strip test design for the rapid screening of aflatoxin at 20 parts...
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