NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE July 2023 79 BioZyme® Inc. created a partnership with AGROVIT d.o.o., a reputable specialist known for feed additives in Slovenia. Agrovit was founded nearly 30 years ago in Ptuj, Slovenia. “We are very pleased to have a collaborator in Slovenia to help distribute our AO-Biotics® portfolio and spread their value in this country,” said Dr. Peter Windhausen, BioZyme Business Development Manager. “AO-Biotics Amaferm is a great chance for the livestock producers in our country to increase productivity in a sustainable way,” said Miro Ljubec, owner of Agrovit d.o.o. “We are looking forward to exploring the possibilities for this innovative product in our market. It is amazing to see how much technical expertise and research BioZyme is doing, and we will surely profit from it,” added Ljubec. Read more>> BioZyme forms partnership with Agrovit in Slovenia One of Alltech’s mycotoxin research papers has been recognized by Toxins, a prestigious international research journal, as one of three winners of their 2022 Best Paper Awards. The paper, “Co-Occurrence of 35 Mycotoxins: A Seven-Year Survey of Corn Grain and Corn Silage in the United States,” was written by Alltech Mycotoxin Management team members Dr. Alexandra Weaver, global technical support; Nick Adams, global director; and Dr. Alex Yiannikouris, research group director; along with an independent researcher Dr. Daniel Weaver. “Research and innovation are at the core of our business at Alltech, and we are proud of this recognition of the innovative work being conducted by our global mycotoxin management team,” said Dr. Mark Lyons, president and CEO of Alltech. “Mycotoxins are ever-present on the farm, and they pose a real threat to the productivity of even the best-run livestock production operations. Mycotoxin management should be on every feed producer and farmer’s radar.” Alltech’s winning paper describes how mycotoxins contaminate corn grain and silage in the United States with frequent co-occurrence of fusaric acid with deoxynivalenol, fusaric acid with 15-acetyl-deoxynivalenol, and fusaric acid with fumonisin B1, highlighting the importance of assessing multiple mycotoxins, including emerging mycotoxins and mycotoxin metabolites, when developing risk management programs. “Being selected for this award shows the interest in and importance of testing for multiple mycotoxins,” said Dr. Alexandra Weaver. “When we better understand the full mycotoxin profile of a feedstuff or ration, more informed decisions on mycotoxin management can be made.” The study showed that multiple mycotoxins were often present in both corn grain and corn silage in the U.S. 90.2% of grain and 96.5% of silage samples contained at least two types of mycotoxins. Fusaric acid was the most frequently detected mycotoxin in 78.1 and 93.8% of grains and silages, respectively, followed by deoxynivalenol in 75.7 and 88.2% of samples. The greatest co-occurrence was between fusaric acid and deoxynivalenol in 59.1% of grains and 82.7% of silages, followed by fusaric acid and fumonisin B1, deoxynivalenol with 15-acetyl-deoxynivalenol, and fusaric acid with 15-acetyl-deoxynivalenol. Read more>> Alltech mycotoxin team honored with one of 2022 Best Paper Awards
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