The Costs of Mycotoxin Management in the United States

Losses from mycotoxins in the United States are generally associated with regulatory losses, as opposed to lowered production, illness, or deaths from the effects of the toxins. This is particularly the case for human food, but increasingly it has become the case for animal feeds as strict feed quality control programs become the norm for large-scale animal production units. The Stoloff papers from the 1980s infer a lack of aflatoxin-related toxicity or carcinogenicity in humans in the United States.