Despite the rollout of new stricter limits on the permitted levels of mycotoxins in cereals for human consumption, no changes have been made to recommendations for parameters in animal feed.

A recent study conducted by researchers from Arizona State University has uncovered alarming levels of Fusarium mycotoxins in illicit cannabis samples seized in Arizona and California.

We sent a 500-g sample of feed pooled from different bags of the same batch to an external laboratory for mycotoxin analysis. Two different toxins, aflatoxin B1 (AB1) at 10 ppb and fusarenon-X at ...