Webinar: New ways to prevent mycotoxins

New ways to prevent mycotoxins
Managing mycotoxins is getting more savvy as detection techniques become more sensitive and specific new tools enter the market to spot toxins at an early stage. At the same time, climate change and masked mycotoxins are some of the examples that make mycotoxin control more difficult and complex.
During this webinar on March 13, All About Feed will explain the latest knowledge and research insights to better cope with mycotoxins in the feed chain. The webinar takes place in the week of the World Mycotoxin Forum, held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
This webinar is aimed at nutritionists, feed industry representatives, universities and governments from around the world who all look for the latest views and study outcomes on how to best control mycotoxins and hence reduce the effects on animal health and performance.
Impacts of mycotoxins on turkey health and
performance
Current poultry diets contain
much higher levels of maize and by-products of Dried distillers grains with
solubles (DDGS) than in the past. This makes it important to know the effect
of feed containing medium to high
concentration of Fusarium mycotoxins in poultry. Contamination of animal diets
with deoxynivalenol can result in great economic losses for animal production. Radka
Borutova, Business Development manager for mycotoxin management at Nutriad will
give an overview of various impacts of mycotoxins on turkey health and
performance. She will also share the information about the negative effect of
deoxynivalenol on the performance of young turkey poults fed with three
different mycotoxin deactivators.
Mycotoxin binders: Screening active components
and benchmarking
Commercial mycotoxin
management preparations are (partially) based on adsorbents. These adsorbents
are able to bind, to a certain extent, specific mycotoxins in the
gastro-intestinal tract. An in vitro model was set-up by the Department of
Bio-Analysis of the Ugent (Belgium, MYTOX member) together with Orffa to test
different single compounds and mixtures for their binding capacity (%) of
mycotoxins. Binding of the mycotoxin by the adsorbent is tested at pH3 and
subsequent raised to pH7 to simulate pH kinetics in the gastro-intestinal
tract. The model was applied to analyse a large number of ingredients. These
can be divided into inorganic adsorbents, yeast-based adsorbents and organic
adsorbents (non-yeast). This screening resulted in the discovery of a best
synergistic composition, consisting of five ingredients. This composition was
benchmarked against 19 commercial, complexed mycotoxin management preparations
sourced from global feed additives market in the same model. Brecht Bruneel MSc,
International Technical
Manager at Orffa will present and further explain the results during this
webinar.
Mycotoxin management in the European grain trading sector
Dr.
Johan De Meester, on behalf of COCERAL, the European association
representing the trade in cereals, rice, feedstuffs, oilseeds, olive oil, oils
and fats, and agrosupply, will speak about mycotoxin management and raw
materials - Experiences in the European grain trading sector. He will explain
the role of grain traders in the supply chain, the EU regularity framework and
how traders deal with mycotoxin control (e.g. routine sampling and testing). De
Meester will also delve in some of the outcomes of the biannual mycotoxin survey that
COCERAL carries out.
Speakers:
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Johan de Meester On behalf of Coceral, the European association representing the trade in cereals, rice, feedstuffs, oilseeds, olive oil, oils and fats and agrosupply |
Business Development Manager for mycotoxin management, Nutriad |
Brecht Bruneel International Technical Manager, Orffa |
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The webinar will be hosted by Jake Davies, editor Poultry World at Proagrica.
The webinar New way to prevent mycotoxins will last an hour and will start at 4 pm Central European Winter Time on March 13.
This corresponds to e.g. 11 am Atlanta, Georgia, 12 am San Paulo, Brazil, 6 pm in Moscow, Russia, 10 pm in Bangkok, Thailand and 11 pm in Beijing.
For anyone who is unable to follow the webinar, it will be available for streaming at any other date at a later moment.
Join our experts, attendance is free.