Table 2.
Percentage adsorption of deoxynivalenol (DON), zearalenone (ZEN), fumonisin B1 (FB1), ochratoxin A (OTA), T-2 toxin and aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) by 10 commercially available feed additives in an in vitro model designed to mimic the gastrointestinal tract of a monogastric animal *.
| Adsorbed Mycotoxin (%) (mean ± SD) ** | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category | Product | DON | ZEN | FB1 | OTA | T-2 | AFB1 |
| Inorganic Additives | 1 | 55 ± 3.1 b | 40 ± 2.2 b | 33 ± 3.6 c | 25 ± 2.5 c | 26 ± 1.3 c | 51 ± 2.9 b |
| 2 | 39 ± 1.3 d | 29 ± 2.6 d | 20 ± 1.9 d | 18 ± 3.2 d | 04 ± 1.4 d | 53 ± 2.1 b | |
| 3 | 41 ± 1.6 d | 12 ± 1.2 f | 21 ± 2.3 d | 00 | 00 | 38 ± 1.5 c | |
| 4 | 31 ± 1.7 e | 18 ± 2.2 e | 20 ± 3.1 d | 00 | 02 ± 0.4 d | 42 ± 1.2 c | |
| Organic Additives | 5 | 47 ± 1.9 c | 40 ± 2.4 b | 45 ± 2.1 b | 29 ± 1.5 b | 28 ± 1.3 c | 54 ± 2.2 b |
| 6 | 55 ± 1.6 b | 53 ± 1.1 a | 51 ± 1.5 a | 52 ± 2.3 a | 56 ± 1.4 a | 62 ± 0.9 a | |
| 7 | 36 ± 2.2 e | 41 ± 2.5 b | 19 ± 0.6 d | 26 ± 0.9 c | 00 | 39 ± 1.4 c | |
| Mixed Additives | 8 | 41 ± 3.3 d | 36 ± 1.7 c | 23 ± 1.4 d | 10 ± 2.1 e | 28 ± 1.6 c | 48 ± 1.9 b,c |
| 9 | 61 ± 2.4 a | 53 ± 1.4 a | 35 ± 2.6 c | 32 ± 1.2 b | 35 ± 0.7 b | 58 ± 3.2 a | |
| 10 | 22 ± 1.8 f | 08 ±1.9 f | 00 | 00 | 00 | 29 ± 0.8 d | |
* Calculated in comparison to the control treatment with no feed additives. ** Values are means of three replicates. a–f Values labelled with the same superscript in a column are not significantly different (p > 0.05).