In this study, broilers were fed a diet contaminated with 20 ppm fumonisins for 4 or 9 days prior to slaughtering at 21 days old. While this short exposure to fumonisins, at levels approaching the maximum recommended level defined by the EU guidelines, did not trigger any sign of toxicity nor effect on performances, it caused an accumulation of fumonisins in the liver and breast muscle. This study is the first one ever demonstrating a deposit of fumonisins in broiler tissues.
This study also demonstrated that feeding the Olmix Algoclay technology reduced the accumulation of fumonisin B1 by around 40% in the liver and by 50% in the meat.
