Control Measures of Fusarium Toxins in Forage Maize

Maize is one of the world’s main food crops, China is the world’s second largest producer of maize, is also a maize importer, in the total output of maize, feed maize accounted for 63%. Fusarium toxin affects the quality and safety of forage maize and leads to waste. Controlling Fusarium toxins pollution in forage maize is of great significance to reduce the feed cost, ensure the food safety and enhance the competitiveness of maize in the world. In this paper, the critical control points of Fusarium toxins contamination during the planting, harvesting, transportation, storage and process of the forage maize were analyzed to provide suggestions for controlling Fusarium toxin pollution. The control of Fusarium toxin pollution in the whole forage maize industry chain should trace to the field. Standardized operating procedures should be established from the origin environment to variety selection and from cultivation technology to field management. Conditions and requirements should be clearly defined in the middle links of harvesting, drying, transportation and storage, so as to reduce the risk of toxin concentration during processing and accelerate the establishment of a standard evaluation system for feed demildew agents. Thus promoting the benign development of mildew removal agent market, in order to ensure the quality of forage maize.