Mycotoxins, underestimated?

In the eighties and nineties of the last century mycotoxins were not really considered a threat, merely because the detection methods were not sufficient enough to track them. Nowadays however these secondary metabolites of various fungi and moulds have become an inextricabe part of animal nutrition. Whether is has to do with the larger occurrence or better detection methods it is a problem in the whole animal feed industry and on a global scale. It is clearly recognised that these toxins, whe