3^rd Quarter 2009

Once again BIOMIN shows its concern regarding the mycotoxin problem and provides you with your personal Mycotoxin Risk Management tool. The following figures, charts and tables refer to the worldwide mycotoxin contamination of agricultural commodities for the period between July and September 2009. In this 3-month period, a total of 744 samples were analyzed for the most important mycotoxins in terms of agriculture and animal production – aflatoxins (Afla), zearalenone (ZON), deoxynivalenol (DON), fumonisins (FUM) and ochratoxin A (OTA). Due to the various origins of the different samples, the analysis and data were allocated to different regions: America (North, Central and South), Asia (South-East, South and North), Oceania, Europe (Northern, Central and Southern), Middle East and Africa. Samples tested were diverse, ranging from cereals such as corn, wheat, barley and rice to processing by-products, namely soybean meal, corn gluten meal, dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) and other fodder such as straw, silage and finished feed. If you think this is an interesting report, make sure you do not miss our next quarterly reports and our annual report to be released at the beginning of next year.

Figure 1 gives you an overview on the distribution of mycotoxins throughout the different world regions.

Figure 1: Prevalence of mycotoxins in different geographic regions

As seen in Figure 2, from the 744 survey samples analyzed 38%, 41%, 50%, 59% and 33% tested positive for contamination with Afla, ZON, DON, FUM and OTA, respectively.

Figure 2: Global mycotoxin occurrence between July and September 2009 in the analyzed samples

From Figure 3, it is obvious that mycotoxins are an ubiquitous problem as 77% of the analyzed samples show the presence of, at least, one mycotoxin. The presence of more than one mycotoxin in 48% of the samples raises the attention to the problem of synergistic effects caused by multiple mycotoxins in animal feeds.

Figure 3: Global co-occurrence of mycotoxins

Tables 1 to 5 present an overview of the survey with the number of analyzed samples, the percentage of positive samples, the average of positive results and the maximum contamination found.

Table 1 - 5: Mycotoxin analysis results by different regions

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