Occurrence of deoxynivalenol (DON) and ochratoxin A (OTA) in dog foods

P Songsermsakul; E Razzazi-Fazeli; J Böhm; J Zentek

doi:10.1007/BF02946027

Occurrence of deoxynivalenol (DON) and ochratoxin A (OTA) in dog foods

Mycotoxin Res. 2007 Jun;23(2):65-7. doi: 10.1007/BF02946027.

Authors

P Songsermsakul¹, E Razzazi-Fazeli, J Böhm, J Zentek

Affiliation

¹ Department of Veterinary Public Health, Institute of Nutrition, University of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinärplatz 1, 1210, Vienna, Austria.

PMID: 23605908
DOI: 10.1007/BF02946027

Abstract

The commercially available dog food samples (29 dry foods and 11 wet foods) were analysed for deoxynivalenol (DON) and ochratoxin A (OTA) using ELISA. All (100%) dry foods were contaminated with DON with various amount of the toxin (22-1837 μg/kg). In wet food 3 samples were found to be positive for DON in the range of 95-170 μg/kg. There were a few samples contaminated with OTA: 3 samples in dry foods (7-40 μg/kg) and 2 samples in wet foods (45 and 115 μg/kg).