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Alltech survey collected 274 samples from 15 countries
Europe’s crops harvested during the 2020 growing season have moderate to high levels of mycotoxin risk, according to Alltech’s European Summer Harvest Survey.
Alltech’s results are based on 274 samples of barley, wheat, corn, corn silage, grass silage, alfalfa, haylage, grass, peas, oats, sunflower meal, triticale and soybean from Russia, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Hungary, Germany, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Estonia, Republic of Lithuania, Morocco, Greece, Belarus, Croatia and Kazakhstan. These samples offer a representative picture of the contamination risk in all regions, Alltech said.
Samples showed an average of 4.4 mycotoxins, with 99.6% containing at least one mycotoxin and 96.4% containing two or more mycotoxins. Fumonisins were found in 80.7% of the samples; type B-trichothecenes were present in 74.5% of samples.