Prevalence and Risk Assessment of Aflatoxin in Iowa Corn during a Drought Year

Table 1

FDA¹ action levels for aflatoxin in animal feeds.

Class of animals	Feed	Aflatoxin level
Finishing beef cattle	Corn and peanut products	300 ppb
Beef cattle, swine, or poultry	Cottonseed meal	300 ppb
Finishing swine over 100 lb.	Corn and peanut products	200 ppb
Breeding cattle and swine, mature poultry	Corn and peanut products	100 ppb
Immature animals	Animal feeds and ingredients (excluding cottonseed meal)	20 ppb
Dairy animals, animals not listed elsewhere, or unknown use (general market)	Animal feeds and ingredients	20 ppb

¹US Food and Drug Administration, Action levels for poisonous or deleterious substances in human food and animal feed. US Department of Health & Human Services, Editor. 2000.