{"id":708,"date":"2020-10-21T10:57:08","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/?p=708"},"modified":"2020-10-21T10:57:09","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T09:57:09","slug":"mycotoxins-the-danger-of-a-silent-enemy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/mycotoxins-the-danger-of-a-silent-enemy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mycotoxins, the danger of a silent enemy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mycotoxins, the danger of a silent enemy<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color wp-block-paragraph\">Mycotoxins are toxic, carcinogenic substances produced by fungi commonly found in grain and feed*. After being ingested, these toxins are absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract and can cause a variety of clinical and sub-clinical diseases, thereby significantly reducing animal productivity.<br><br>* According to the FAO, more than 25% of grains are contaminated by mycotoxins.<br><br><strong>Effects of mycotoxins on animals<\/strong><br><br><strong>Growth rate<\/strong><br><br>\u2022 Decrease in intake<br>\u2022 Decrease in weight gain<br>\u2022 Increase in diarrhoea<br>\u2022 Increase in mortality<br><br><strong>Immunity<\/strong><br>\u2022 Decrease in the efficacy of vaccinations and antibiotic treatments<br>\u2022 Decrease in the number of lymphocytes<br>\u2022 Immunosuppression<br><br><strong>Metabolism<\/strong><br>\u2022 Liver disorders<br>\u2022 Anaemia and enteritis<br>\u2022 Nerve disorders<br>\u2022 Changes in the relative weight of organs<br><br><strong>Reproduction<\/strong><br>\u2022 Decrease in milk production<br>\u2022 Reproductive problems<br>\u2022 Ovarian hypertrophy<br>\u2022 Increase in abortions<br><br><strong>Producing fungi and mycotoxins produced<\/strong><br><br><strong>Aspergillus<\/strong><br>Aflatoxin, Ochratoxin, Verruculogen<br><br><strong>Penicilium<\/strong><br>Citrinin, Penitrem<br><br><strong>Fusarium<\/strong><br>Vomitoxin (DON), T-2 toxin, Zearalenone, Fumonisin<br><br>Detecting any of these mycotoxins in feed may be an indicator of the presence of other unknown mycotoxins.<br><br><strong>toxidex\u00ae <\/strong>acts against mycotoxins through a triple mechanism of <strong>retention<\/strong>, <strong>attraction <\/strong>and <strong>destruction<\/strong>.<br><br>Toxidex retains mycotoxins physically and chemically due to a special combination of selected aluminosilicates. The natural polar attraction of silicates is increased by the presence of surfactant.<br><br>Aluminosilicates are chemically activated with agents that have a mycotoxin inactivating and destroying effect.<br><br>The combination of the three mechanisms renders <strong>toxidex\u00ae <\/strong>a unique product with a high efficacy against a broad spectrum of mycotoxins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Click on\u00a0the links below to download\u00a0the brochure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dexiberica.com\/catalogos\/toxidex-eng.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" src=\"http:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Toxidex-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Toxidex-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Toxidex-260x111.jpg 260w, https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Toxidex-50x21.jpg 50w, https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Toxidex-155x66.jpg 155w, https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/Toxidex.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mycotoxins, the danger of a silent enemy Mycotoxins are toxic, carcinogenic substances produced by fungi commonly found in grain and feed*. After being ingested, these toxins are absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract and can cause a variety of clinical and sub-clinical diseases, thereby significantly reducing animal productivity. * According to the FAO, more than 25% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[158,112,156,159,155,157],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fumonisin","tag-mycotoxins","tag-t-2-toxin","tag-toxidex-2","tag-vomitoxin-don","tag-zearalenone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dexiberica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}