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Biography:
The Technical Service Manager for Food Safety initiative in Kemin Europa N.V. In this role she provides technical support for antimicrobials, mould inhibitors, mycotoxin binders and surfactants within Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
She was born in 1975 in the North-Western part of Russia. In 2001 she defended her PhD thesis "The Effect of Different Enzyme Compositions Single-Handed or in Combination with Na Humate on Broilers Fed Wheat and Barley-Based Diet " in the Moscow Agricultural Academy n.a. Timiryazev.
She has acquired a broad technical and commercial experience in several functions: first as a Lecturer Assistant in chemical analysis of feedingstuffs at the Moscow Agricultural Academy. After two years she changed to a more commercial career at Degussa Russia, as a Technical Sales Manager in the amino acids business. About 5 years later in 2006 she moved to Kemin Europa N.V., Belgium as a Technical Service Manager for the Food Safety initiative programme, supporting customers in the application of mould inhibitors, antimicrobials and mycotoxin binders.
Title: Mycotoxins, how to manage a serious matter of concern in food safety
The worldwide occurrence of mycotoxin contamination of feedstuffs and the severity of mycotoxicoses in farm animals shows a tendency to increase in recent years. Many factors contribute to this increase such as the global climate change and increased international trading of feedingstuffs from different geographical origins. Blends of various raw materials in compound feed increase the risk of feed contamination with several mycotoxins. It is known that unexpected toxicity may arise due to toxicological interactions between different mycotoxins that amplify the effects of any single contaminant. In addition to reduced feed intake, lower weight gain and in some cases reduced feed efficiency, mycotoxins can also be deposited in meat, eggs and milk. This transfer of mycotoxins into food products poses a threat to human health. Increasingly food safety standards across the world are putting more emphasis on the control of mycotoxins in food and animal feed. Mycotoxin control requires proactive HACCP-based strategies to prevent fungal growth on crops on the field, at harvest, during processing, transport and storage. In addition, the use of mycotoxin binders is also an established practice in many parts of the world for further reduction of myctoxin-related risks in animal production.
A variety of approaches are used to prove the efficacy of different toxin binders. Unfortunately this sometimes creates some confusion for all parties involved in animal production. Hence, a set of suitable guidelines should be discussed for the in vitro and in vivo assessment of mycotoxin binders. In order to unequivocally prove the efficacy of a mycotoxin binder 7 parameters need to be studied:
- Broad-spectrum mycotoxin binding performance
- Availability of essential nutrients to the animal
- The binder is not a growth promoter. Growth promotion may mask mycotoxicosis
- Improvement of zootechnical performance
- Recovery of organ status
- Excretion of mycotoxins via faeces
- Recovery of the immune status
The importance of all aspects should be discussed in detail and examples must be given from an comprehensive evaluation of an activated clay-based mycotoxin binder developed in Kemin Toxfin® – a unique product with multimycotoxin binding performance. Examples of animal trials with Toxfin® show that all 7 parameters are essential to prove performance of mycotoxin inactivators beyond any doubt.
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