Contamination of corn in Switzerland with low to medium mycotoxins

Swiss granum monitors, as part of a monitoring in collaboration with Agroscope, the contamination of grain corn with mycotoxins after harvest. Despite the detection of deoxynivalenol in practically every sample, the level of contamination is low to medium for the 2021 harvest. That of mycotoxins fumonisins is low, but higher than 2020, and average for zearalenone (photo Agroscope). DON mycotoxin was detected in almost every sample analyzed (DON> 0.2 ppm resp. Mg / kg). Out of a total of 33 samples analyzed, 70% had a DON content between 0.2 and 0.5 mg / kg, 21% of the samples were between 0.5 and 1 mg / kg and one sample exceeded 1 mg / kg DON (2.50 mg / kg). The average of all the samples analyzed is 0.45 mg / kg DON, specifies the Swiss granum press release published on Tuesday, December 21. The 2021 contamination level is therefore slightly higher than that of 2020 (0.38 mg / kg), but remains lower than that of the last five years (0.58 mg / kg). The level of fumonisin ...