PREVENTION OF MYCOTOXICOSES OF ANIMALS: ACHIEVEMENTS AND PROSPECTS
The article justifies the necessity of input mycotoxicological control of feed as the most effective measure for prevention of mycotoxicoses of animals. The main stages of development of a unified methodology for determining sanitary mycotoxins and recommendations for their restrictive regulation in feed grains, feed raw materials and complete feed for different age and sex categories of pigs and poultry are presented. Proposals have been made for the feasibility of continuing studies of fusariotoxins in wheat, barley, maize and determining the causes of the frequent occurrence of ochratoxin A in conjunction with citrinin in sunflower oil-seed meal and cake, as well as multiple combined contamination with mycotoxins of maize “gluten”. In solving these issues, the important role of the legislative basis for the enforcement of the results of mycotoxicological analysis and coordination of the efforts of scientists specializing in the field of plant protection, mycology, ecology, toxicology, storage of agricultural products, and technologists of processing enterprises of flour, starch, fat and feed industries was noted. The results of basic research performed in recent years in the laboratory of mycotoxicology and feed sanitation for the assessment of the risks associated with detection in feed mycotoxin of especially dangerous form of action: mycophenolic acid, alternariol and cyclopiazonic acid are discussed in the article.