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- Title
Nutritional impact of mycotoxins in food animal production and strategies for mitigation.
- Authors
Xu, Ran; Kiarie, Elijah G.; Yiannikouris, Alexandros; Sun, Lvhui; Karrow, Niel A.
- Abstract
Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites produced by filamentous fungi that are commonly detected as natural contaminants in agricultural commodities worldwide. Mycotoxin exposure can lead to mycotoxicosis in both animals and humans when found in animal feeds and food products, and at lower concentrations can affect animal performance by disrupting nutrient digestion, absorption, metabolism, and animal physiology. Thus, mycotoxin contamination of animal feeds represents a significant issue to the livestock industry and is a health threat to food animals. Since prevention of mycotoxin formation is difficult to undertake to avoid contamination, mitigation strategies are needed. This review explores how the mycotoxins aflatoxins, deoxynivalenol, zearalenone, fumonisins and ochratoxin A impose nutritional and metabolic effects on food animals and summarizes mitigation strategies to reduce the risk of mycotoxicity.
- Publication
Journal of Animal Science & Biotechnology, 2022, Vol 13, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1674-9782
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/s40104-022-00714-2