Every year since 2004 Biomin has conducted an annual survey of mycotoxins as part of the technical service they provide to their customers. The worldwide survey reports on which mycotoxins were discovered and where they were found. Biomin maintains that the survey is crucial to helping the company to develop new products for customers as it allows them to us evaluate the mycotoxin risk to animals.
This year's webinar was moderated by Joshua Davis and featured a panel of mycotoxin experts including:
- Alexandro Marchioro MSc Senior Mycotoxin Expert at Biomin
- Anneliese Müll PhD, Project Manager, Mycotoxin at Biomin
- And Martina Bellasio PhD Senior Mycotoxin Expert at ROMER LABS
Mycotoxin origins
Mycotoxins produced by fungi contaminate a wide variety of feed ingredients given to ruminants, swine, poultry, fish, and shrimp. These mycotoxins can have many deleterious consequences for animals, including affecting health, growth, welfare and, ultimately, profitability.
Biomin's mycotoxin report covered the major topics surrounding the issue of mycotoxin infection:
• Upcoming mycotoxin threats in livestock feed across the globe
• Relevant mycotoxin testing tools to ensure proper monitoring in an animal rearing operation
• The dangers posed by the presence of multiple mycotoxins and newly emerging mycotoxins
• How to establish an effective mycotoxin risk management program
The report was offered as a live streamed webinar and opened with a world map colour-keyed in terms of the risk threshold. While all regions are affected by mycotoxins, the risk threshold is based on risk in the field and rated from moderate to Extreme risk. Pale yellow denotes moderate risk levels which gradually darkens to dark red which represents extreme risk. A new addition for 2020 was the introduction of mycotoxin risk for aquaculture.
Corn (maize) was one of the first feed crops evaluated and was depicted by a graph recording ten-years of mycotoxin contamination. It was noted that the same strains of mycotoxins have appeared around the world.
Read the full article on the International Aquafeed website, HERE.
The Aquaculturists
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