ARTICLE 78 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE March 2026 The 2025 Trouw Nutrition Global Mycotoxin Review provides feed mills and farmers with insights to safeguard feed quality and livestock performance in 2026. Dr. Swamy Haladi and Avinash Bhat highlight key contamination risks, predictive modeling, and mitigation strategies to help producers make informed decisions on raw material sourcing, storage, and feed formulation. GLOBAL MYCOTOXIN REVIEW GUIDES FEED MILLS AND FARMERS IN 2026 Trouw Nutrition, Nutreco’s livestock feed business, is sharing findings on the levels of mycotoxin contamination in 2025 feed ingredients, silage, and complete feeds. As climate change, global sourcing practices, and an ever-evolving mycotoxin landscape pose challenges to animal feed quality, livestock performance, and producers’ businesses, these findings can inform critical decisions on the farm and at the feed mill. A robust predictive model capable of assessing mycotoxin concentration levels globally and regionally analysed more than 120,000 samples from 47 countries. Farms and feed mills can use the data generated by the model to bring more clarity and precision to strategies involving raw material sourcing, storage practices, mitigation efforts, and other critical decisions. The most-detected mycotoxins included Deoxynivalenol (DON) and Zearalenone (ZEN), which were present in 57% and 62% of global samples, respectively. Dr. Swamy Haladi, Global Category Manager for Mould and Mycotoxin Risk Management at Trouw Nutrition, noted that it is unclear why the prevalence of ZEN is increasing. The increase could be a response to changes in climate and weather or an ongoing ingredient management issue. “In the last couple of years, there’s been a significant increase in By Trouw Nutrition
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