Category Archives: Animal Feed Mould Toxin

SPAR continuously controls the products of the SPAR brands to ensure the highest quality – not only for food, but also for items for pets, for example. During a routine quality control, a microbiological deviation (mold formation) was found in the product “Fiffy Wiesenheu 700g” of batches no. 156 (best before 11/24) and no. 161 (best before 02/25). For this reason, SPAR is recalling the product with the above batch numbers. This warning does not imply that the nonconformity was caused by the producer, manufacturer, importer or distributor.

Customers are asked not to use the “Fiffy Wiesenhay 700g” with the batch numbers 156 and 161 for their pets due to a microbiological deviation (mold formation). All other Fiffy products or meadow hay of other brands are not affected by this recall.

All customers who have bought a product with the batch numbers mentioned can of course return it to the nearest SPAR, EUROSPAR or INTERSPAR store or Maximarkt. Customers are reimbursed the purchase price even without a receipt.

Customers who have questions about this are welcome to contact customer service at office@spar.at or call the freephone number 0800 / 22 11 20 .

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RASFF Alert – Aflatoxin – Organic sun cake expeller

Posted on April 7, 2023 by KSW | Leave a comment

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Aflatoxins in organic sun cake expeller from Italy in Denmark

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Research – Extensive literature searches on bromine and Ochratoxin A in feed

Posted on April 1, 2023 by KSW | Leave a comment

EFSA

Two Extensive Literature Searches (ELSs) by using PubMed, Web of Science (WoS) and SciFinder for relevant studies on Ochratoxin A (OTA) and bromine, bromate and bromide (BRs) in feed were performed. Search queries allowed to obtain a total number of 8,953 and 34,183 references for OTA and BRs, respectively. The relevance analysis of the documents was performed by screening titles and abstracts against inclusion and exclusion criteria. Relevant references accounted in each Area, for OTA and BRs, were respectively: Area 1 (Information on analytical techniques for quantification) 117 and 117 documents, respectively; Area 2 (Information on occurrence/concentrations and formation) 176 and 176 documents, respectively; Area 3 (Information on exposure of farm and companion animals) 31 and 3 documents, respectively; Area 4 (Information on toxicokinetics (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion) in farm and companion animals) 37 and 8 documents, respectively; Area 5 (Information on toxicity of OTA/BRs in farm and companion animals) 249 and 23 documents, respectively; Area 6 (Information on the transfer of OTA/BRs from feed to animal derived food) 18 and 4 documents. A total number of 618 and 100 relevant non‐redundant documents was found for OTA and BRs, respectively. Those results were obtained after the full text analysis of all the document previously labelled as relevant.

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RASFF Alert – Animal Feed- Aflatoxin – Sunflower Seeds

Posted on March 31, 2023 by KSW | Leave a comment

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Aflatoxin B1 in sunflower seeds from Egypt in Spain

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RASFF Alerts – Animal Feed – Aflatoxin – Peanuts- Dairy Sheep Compound Feed

Posted on March 24, 2023 by KSW | Leave a comment

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Aflatoxin B1 in Indian peanuts for bird feed in the Netherlands

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Aflatoxin B1 in dairy sheep compound feed from France in Spain

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USA – Voluntary Recall of One Lot of Kaytee® Wild Bird Food Birders Blend, 8 Lb Bag, Due to Elevated Levels of Aflatoxin

Posted on March 22, 2023 by KSW | Leave a comment

FDA

CHILTON, WI – March 18, 2023 – Kaytee Products Inc. is voluntarily recalling one lot of Kaytee® Wild Bird Food Birders’ Blend, 8 lb. bag, UPC 0 71859 02711 1, Lot Number PennPak1 102022 933, best buy date of 041224, due to potentially elevated levels of Aflatoxin above the acceptable limit. Aflatoxin is a naturally occurring by-product from the growth of Aspergillus flavus and can be harmful to wild birds if consumed in significant quantities. No illnesses have been reported in association with this product to date and no other Kaytee products are affected.

On March 13, 2023, the Georgia Department of Agriculture notified Kaytee Products Inc. that after conducting a routine laboratory analysis of the product, Lot PennPak1 102022 933 located on the bottom right corner of the front of the 8 lb. bags of Kaytee® Wild Bird Food Birder’s Blend was found to contain elevated levels of Aflatoxin.

The products affected by this announcement are: