Climate change

In the decades to come, the one factor that is likely to have the greatest effect on the economics of the mycotoxin problem is climate change. The effects of climate change include flooding, such as those which swept through the US mid-west in recent years, destroying thousands of acres of corn. Because of regulatory limits set on maximum allowable levels of mycotoxins in food and feed, growers will experience economic losses if climatic factors cause certain mycotoxins to become more prevalent