Proof of mycotoxicoses being a field problem and a simple method for their control.
A field trial in which moldy caked feed was removed from the feed delivery truck, storage bins, conveyors, and feeding troughs by scrubbing and disinfecting resulted in improved body weight, pigmentation, and carcass grade of broiler chickens. This improvement which occurred despite the presence of only small and infrequent quantities of aflatoxin and ochratoxin suggest that mycotoxicoses, as yet undefined, can have a deleterious economic effect and further suggests that the mycotoxicoses can be partially controlled by simple preventive measures.
D000821:Animal Feed; D000818:Animals; D002338:Carotenoids / Q000097:blood; D002645:Chickens; D009183:Mycotoxins / Q000633:toxicity*; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000517:prevention & control*
D009183:Mycotoxins; D002338:Carotenoids