How the feed industry is rethinking mycotoxin risk

For decades, mycotoxin management in animal feed followed a simple logic: test raw materials, compare results to regulatory limits and move on if the feed passed the test. That model is changing fast as feed companies are increasingly treating mycotoxin exposure as more than a pass-fail safety check — an ongoing performance and profitability issue that requires more frequent testing, broader data and, in some cases, direct monitoring of the animals themselves.

Historically, mycotoxin control was a feed safety checkpoint applied late in the process. Clement Soulet, director of enzymes and anti-mycotoxin agents at Cargill Micronutrion and Health Solutions, said the industry's guiding question used to be narrow.