Back to news  November 6, 2024Myco'News, Animal Care Reading Time: 2 minutes Swine and poultry feeds are often contaminated with deoxynivalenol (DON), which is known to be the most at risk mycotoxin for livestock. DON is…

April 5, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes The global trading of wheat and its subsequent transportation leads to increased storage time of the grains, which can be at risk for mycotoxins. In their study, Wang et al. simulated different storage conditions (time, temperature, humidity,…

Extensive information is available about mycotoxins: their physico-chemical properties, toxicity, kinetics, producing fungi, etc. Meanwhile, this information is scattered across the Web and in the literature. The work of Habauzit…

Back to news January 23, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes The determination of mycotoxins in field samples relies on sampling, sample preparation, subsampling, and instrumental analysis. The sample preparation step consists in the…

Fumonisin (FUM) toxicity is associated with the blocking of ceramide synthases (CerS), which affects the equilibrium of sphingolipids like sphinganine (Sa) and sphingosine (So) within cells. While Sa accumulates in…

The World Mycotoxin Forum (WMF) is a leading conference series on mycotoxins where representatives of the feed and food industry, the government, and research institutions can meet. On the occasion…

Mycotoxin contaminations in feed and food are a widely known threat. Not only can they have direct repercussions on animal and human health, but they can also interact with other…

The Society for Mycotoxin Research recently held its annual Mycotoxin Workshop in Celle, Germany. On 5-7 June 2023, mycotoxin scientists from renowned institutions presented their latest work on different topics,…

Earth’s climate is undergoing adverse global changes as a result of increasing anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. Climate representing the most important agroecosystem factor influencing the life cycle stages of…

In 2017, the EFSA Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) adopted a Scientific Opinion on the risks for animal health related to the presence of deoxynivalenol (DON) and…

Evaluating animals’ exposure to mycotoxins is important to manage mycotoxin risk. A classical approach to assess animal’s exposure is to check the contamination in feedstuffs.However, monitoring mycotoxins in feeds has…

NX and its acetylated form 3ANX are two new type A trichothecenes produced by Fusarium graminearum. NX and 3ANX are structurally similar to the type B trichothecenes deoxynivalenol (DON) and…

One of the most important steps in mycotoxin management is the evaluation of mycotoxins in the raw materials and finished feeds. Therefore, Olmix created the Myco’Screen program that aims to…