PREVALENCE, TOXICOKINETICS AND CLINICAL SIGNS OF ZEARALENONE MYCOTOXICOSIS IN PIGS - AN OVERVIEW
The contamination of feeds and foods with mycotoxins is a global ecological and public health issue. The effects of fungi growing on feeds and of mycotoxins produced by them are outlined with the fact that even minimum concentrations, especially in cases of potentiated synergism and continuous ex...
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| Language: | English |
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Trakia University
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Trakia Journal of Sciences |
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| Online Access: | http://tru.uni-sz.bg/tsj/Volume%2021,%202023,%20Number%203,%20Series%20Biomedical%20Sciences/9_N.Nikolov.pdf |
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| Summary: | The contamination of feeds and foods with mycotoxins is a global ecological and public health issue.
The effects of fungi growing on feeds and of mycotoxins produced by them are outlined with the fact
that even minimum concentrations, especially in cases of potentiated synergism and continuous
exposure, may cause substantial harm to health manifested with immunosuppression, reproductive
disorders in farm animals and hence, reduced productive performance and great economic losses. By
affecting numerous economic sectors and the food industry in particular, mycotoxins pose a huge
threat to animal and human health. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reports that 25%
of global food crops used as primary feed ingredients in animal and human nutrition are affected by
mycotoxins and contaminated as early as during the stages of plant growth, harvesting, transportation
or storage.
The most important mycotoxins, subject to extensive research and of enormous economic relevance
in modern livestock husbandry, pig farming in particular, are deoxynivalenol (DON), zearalenone
(ZEA), T-2 toxin (T-2), fumonisin B1 (FB1), ochratoxin A (OTA) and aflatoxin B1 (AFB1). The present
review describes zearalenone (ZEA) as one of the main pig feed contaminants, its prevalence,
toxicokinetics, toxicodynamics and clinical signs. |
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| ISSN: | 1313-3551 |