Black Sea Journal of Agriculture

Yazarlar: Hasan Hüseyin İPÇAK, Ahmet ALÇİÇEK, Sema ÖZÜRETMEN

Konular:Ziraat, Sütçülük ve Hayvan Bilimleri

Anahtar Kelimeler:Mycotoxins,Toxin binders,Feed,Livestock

Özet: Mycotoxins are small and quite stable molecules which are extremely difficult to remove or eradicate, and which are considered to be a great threat both for human and animal health in global terms. Especially in farm animals, mycotoxins can cause decreased performance, reducing in feed consumption, weakening of immunity system, reproductive disorders, diminished body weight gain and residues on food products of animal origin. The mycotoxins of major concern as feed contaminants that are potentially removable from feed are mainly aflatoxins, ochratoxin A, zearalenone, deoxynivalenol, T-2 and fumonisins. One of the methods for reducing the exposure to mycotoxins is to reduce their absorption and bioavailability by using various mycotoxin binders. The most widely known of these are aluminosilicates like clay, bentonite, montmorillonite, zeolite, aqueus sodium calcium aluminosilicate (HSCAS) and active carbons. Another method is the degradation of mycotoxins into non-toxic metabolites by using indigestable complex carbonhydrates (bacterium and yeast cell walls), enzyme, vitamin, amino-acid and synthetic polymers like cholestralamine, polivinil-polipirrolidon polymers (PVPP). The purpose of this review is to identify the benefits and risky aspects of using toxin binders in animal nutrition and to give some idea about the future of this practice.

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