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Mycotoxins in Feed Grains and Ingredients

Published: June 3, 2008
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Grain infected by mold may contain toxic fungal metabolites called mycotoxins. The word mycotoxin was derived from mycotoxicosis, which was a term first used in 1955 to describe diseases of animals caused by fungal toxins. The presence of mycotoxins in feed grains or ingredients may cause illness or death in livestock. Mycotoxins also pose a potential hazard to human health. The Food and Drug Adm...
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Dr. Karki Kedar
4 de junio de 2008

Thanx, very nice piece of information about Mycotoxins in Feed Grains and Ingredients; more effort to be needed for identification of disease conditions due to moldy corns in livestock, equine, poultry and pig. More work should be carried out for prevention of the effect of these feeds. 


Dr Kedar Karki
Nepal

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Saikim Gimbang
6 de junio de 2008

Very infomative. However further research should be done to determine the actual toxicity caused by mycotoxins and ways to reduced the incidence.

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stephen Fapohunda
9 de junio de 2008
Good article. But let us be exact and get harmonised on the origin of the word =mycotoxin=. Some people still hold the view that it was coined in 1962 at the peak of the veterinary crisis that hit the UK.Is it then possible that the word =mycotoxicosis= now said to be first used in 1955 ,evolved before the word it was describing? We need to speak with one voice on this issue. Dr Fapohunda, Stephen Babcock University, Ilishan, Nigeria
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Muzzamal ijaz
Fast Feed Mills
30 de noviembre de 2008

Informative as well as technical article about Mycotoxins in Feed Grains and Ingredients, good cotribution.

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Atik Mulyawan
13 de junio de 2012

A very interesting article about Mycotoxins. Thanks.

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