Mycotoxins and their effect onpoultry
Severe mycotoxin contamination can affect
production parameters in all poultry species, like
feed intake, feed conversion ratio, weight gain
and egg production. However, the effects of
sub-clinical mycotoxin contaminations, which
can result in immune-suppression, are often
underestimated. This often leads to secondary
health problems which are then often incorrectly
diagnosed as the primary problem. As a result it
is reported that vaccines are incorrectly blamed
for being ineffective, animals show low antibody
titers and they are easily affected by bacteria
such as Salmonella and E. Coli. The abundant
use of antibiotics to solve the problemgives some
relief, at high cost, but does not solve the original
cause of the problem. Different rawmaterials
are sensitive to differentmycotoxins as shown
in Table 1.
Cobind B
The extensive transport of cereals all over the world has made mycotoxins a
global problem. Ten years ago only some parts of theworldhadproblemswith
certainmycotoxins. Now the occurance anddiversity ofmycotoxins has become a
global problem. For this reason, Provimi has launched a newandhighly effective
broad spectrummycotoxinbinder: CobindB.
AFLA DON FUM OTA ZEA T-2
Corn
• • • • • •
Wheat
• •
• • •
Barley
• •
• • •
Oats
• •
•
•
Rice
• •
•
Peanut
•
Cottonseed •
Copra
•
Soybeanmeal
•
Sorghum
•
Fishmeal
•
• •
Table 1. Incidence ofmycotoxins in rawmaterials
AFLA = AfatoxinB1, DON=Deoxynivalenol, FUM= FumonisinB1
OTA =OchratoxinA, ZEA = Zearalenon, T2 =T-2 toxin, CITR = Citrinin
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