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"""Aflatoxin contamination represents a serious threat to a healthy food supply. Resulting from mold on corn, peanuts, and other grains and grain products, aflatoxins are extremly toxic. Understanding the nature of fungi infection and the factors that favor aflatoxin formation is important to grain producers, dealers, and other professionals who control grain from the field to the site of consumption to prevent serious loss of large quantities of grain or grain products. Producers of poultry, cattle, sheep, pigs, and even pet food need to be aware of the threat of aflatoxin. Participants in the grain industry who grow, store, or process corn and other grains subject to potential infection by aflatoxin should be aware of the risks of fungal infection and aflatoxin contamination, and proper management strategies. The authors focus on the binding of aflatoxin in animal feeds by employing calcium smectite. Readers will be especially glad to know that aflatoxin can often be controlled with a natural mineral material to bind aflatoxin in animal feeds at a modest cost."""

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Author:   Joe B. Dixon (Texas A&M University) ,  Ana L. Barrientos Velázquez (Texas A&M University) ,  Youjun Deng (Texas A&M University)
Publisher:   American Society of Agronomy
Imprint:   American Society of Agronomy
Dimensions:   Width: 1.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 1.00cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780891183419

ISBN 10:   0891183418
Pages:   80
Publication Date:   09 April 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

Introduction iv Joe B. Dixon, Ana L. Barrientos Velázquez, and Youjun Deng Aflatoxins: An Overview 1 Santos García and Norma L. Heredia Bentonite Properties, Formation, and Distribution as Adsorbents of Aflatoxin in Grain—The Texas Case Study 11 Roberta Russell, Charles Smith, and Joe B. Dixon Methods of Analysis Used in Selecting Smectite Adsorbents 17 Ana L. Barrientos Velázquez, Youjun Deng, and Joe B. Dixon Interactions of Aflatoxin B1 with Smectites: Interlayer Accessibility, Bonding Mechanisms, and Size Matching 27 Youjun Deng, Lian Liu, Ana L. Barrientos Velázquez, Marek Szczerba, and Joe B. Dixon Aflatoxicosis in Poultry: Remediation with Bentonite Clays 44 Justin Fowler and Christopher A. Bailey Impacts of Aflatoxins on Swine Nutrition and Possible Measures of Amelioration 54 Reza Rezaei, Darrell A. Knabe, and Guoyao Wu

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Joe B. Dixon is an emeritus professor of soil science at Texas A&M University, specializing in soil clay mineralogy. Ana L. Barrientos Velázquez is a post-doctoral researcher at Texas A&M. Youjun Deng is an associate professor of soil science at Texas A&M University.

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