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Did you miss our weekly mycotoxin reports?
We sure did. But not to fear, the weekly edition of Monday Mycotoxin Reports has returned to our YouTube channel. This season’s first edition tackles crop planting progress, emergence and, of course, an overview of the potential for mycotoxin issues, especially deoxynivalenol (DON).
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House advances funding bill that bans horse slaughter, gives FDA a small boost – Food Safety News
The bill bumped up the budget for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration [...]
Editor’s note: Happy Wednesday, all! The links will be back to their normal home on Monday next week.
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Court extends deadline for FSMA rules – Food Safety News
The U.S. Food [...]
With heavy rains and flooding hitting much of the Midwest, this year is shaping up to be the opposite of last year for some areas of the U.S.
Last year’s drought was the worst in years, devastating crops and forcing livestock producers to cull their herds as pastures dried up and feed prices skyrocketed. Its [...]
By Pat Frasco
Sales director, milling and grain
Neogen
Harvest is over and crops such as corn are out of the fields and stored, but this doesn’t mean it’s time to drop our guard when it comes to mycotoxins.
It’s been a rough year for producers throughout the U.S., who have been [...]
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FDA says it can’t afford new food safety law – Columbus Dispatch
Agency officials say a lack of funds is slowing implementation of the law.
In organic-hungry Hong Kong, [...]
Aflatoxin and fumonisin contamination can have serious consequences, especially in places where there isn’t a set monitoring program. But two Michigan State University graduate students, Daniel Mwalwayo of Malawi, and Frida Nyamete of Tanzania, are taking aim at reducing the devastating impacts of the toxins in their home countries.
Aflatoxin is a carcinogenic toxin produced [...]
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5 of 7 E. coli cases in western New York linked; source a mystery – Food Safety News
Officials believe water is the source of the outbreak but don’t [...]
Although much of the U.S. is facing a drought, and along with it the risk of aflatoxin, the United Kingdom (U.K.) has a different problem.
Lots of rain – more in the first two weeks of June than is typical for the entire month – is leading to concerns about mycotoxins produced by Fusarium molds, [...]
This summer’s drought has devastated much of what was supposed to be a record corn crop for the U.S.
But it’s not just heat and lack of water that can cause problems for corn farmers; the recent high temperatures and dry conditions also can lead to the growth of certain types of aflatoxin-producing fungus.
Aflatoxin, [...]
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