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Welcome - FINALLY! AFTER 25 YEARS

Since the first ever Mycotoxin Adsorbent (MA) research was done in 1987 by Dr Timothy Phillips, one of the main objectives has been to be able to make the claim of MA in the USA.

Until now MA's have been sold in the USA but as anti-caking agents (clays) or as feed supplements (yeast, bacteria, enzymes) or their combinations. Claims of MA are not made on the label, but most of the products are marketed to the end user by providing data against mycotoxins showing improvements in productivity and/or immune parameters which are secondary / side effects caused by the presence of the mycotoxin and can be influenced by a variety of factors and / or ingredients.

From the first published research on MA (Poult Sci 1988. 67:243-247), it is known that the key scientific evidence of the effectiveness of MA is: Target Organ Protection (TOP) since each mycotoxin has a specific target organ (Aflatoxin – Liver, Ochratoxin – Kidney, etc.)

Special Nutrients with 25 years of experience in this field has never sold any product in the USA market even as an anti-caking agent. We have waited for government regulations to be able to make the claim of a mycotoxin adsorbent since all our in vivo trials conducted with our products against different mycotoxins have TOP results and the majority of them have been published in reputable Poultry Science or Animal Science Journals.

On Feb 11th 2011, the state of Texas published the provisions for the use of Aflatoxin Binding Agents and on May 10th the Criteria for Aflatoxin Binding Agents. Part of the criteria requirements are to present Isothermal Adsorption Analysis that gives a Qmax value which is an in vitro study and in vivo studies on the efficacy of the product.

Special Nutrients, Inc. as of September 5, 2011 was granted the license 109037-2 to sell and distribute MYCO-AD as a Natural Aflatoxin Binder in the State of Texas. As part of the requirements we presented several in vivo studies in Poultry, Cattle and Swine all with TOP results. Read more...