Analysis of the condition and danger of corn grain contamination with deoxynivalenol in 2014–2017
Journal Title: Бюлетень "Ветеринарна біотехнологія" - Year 2018, Vol 32, Issue
Abstract
Introduction. The contamination of food and feed with mycotoxins may pose a risk to human and animal health. However, today, the EU and Ukraine require the maximum permissible levels to be continuously controlled. Therefore, monitoring of mycotoxins levels in grain and products of its processing can be used for MRL revision. The maximum levels are set in such a way that the consumer is adequately protected. The goal of the work was to monitor the presence of deoxynivalenol in corn and risks analysis of further use of samples with low levels of mycotoxin. Materials and method. The studies were conducted in 2014–2017 using the test-kit Ridascreen® DON (manufactured by R-Biopharm AG, Germany) for research, as makes deoxynivalenol detection in cereals fast and accurate at a level of 0.134 mg/kg. Results of research and discussion. The content of deoxynivalenol in corn specimens reachув dangerous levels for the humans ranging from 1.171 to 2.647 mg/kg in 2014, 1,025–3,564 mg/kg in 2015, and it was 3,943 mg/kg in 2017. The rate of contaminated grain in 2014 was 46% of the total number of tested samples, in 2015 – 72%, in 2016 – 12%, in 2017 – 22%. Conclusions and prospects for further research. The Fusarium fungus presented in the samples of the corn is capable of producing deoxynivalenol in different amounts. The percentage of affected grain is quite high at an average of 38% in four years. The area of contamination increases with the processing of grain. As a result, increases the possibility of accumulation of deoxynivalenol in the feed. Therefore, there is a growing risk of corn grain processing, even with a small amount of deoxynivalenol. The study of deoxynivalenol content is intended to prevent, eliminate or reduce to an acceptable level of risk for humans and animals. In the future, it is planned to analyze other fusaritioxins in samples containing deoxynivalenol and to assess the risk of consumption of such samples of corn grain and use it for further processing.
Authors and Affiliations
O. Kaminska, T. Marchenko
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