#feed safety

[trouwnutrition]

Mycotoxin Control: The Role of Mould Inhibitors in Feed Safety

Worldwide, mycotoxins represent a serious risk to the health of cattle and the safety of food. These harmful substances, which are made by certain fungi, have the potential to contaminate animal feed, cause a range of health problems in animals, and eventually compromise the safety and quality of food items. Mould inhibitors are essential for controlling mycotoxin contamination, which is something that farmers and feed makers need to do.

Knowledge of Mycotoxins and Their Effects Secondary metabolites known as mycotoxins are made by a variety of fungal species, mainly those in the Aspergillus, Penicillium, and Fusarium genera. Both before and after harvest, these harmful substances can grow in crops, especially in environments with ideal humidity and temperature levels.

Mycotoxins in animal feed can cause a variety of health issues in animals, such as:

less feed consumption and increased weight

weakened immunity

Reproductive problems

organ injury

heightened vulnerability to illnesses

Furthermore, mycotoxins have the ability to build up in animal products such as meat, eggs, and milk, which could be harmful to human health. In addition to endangering food safety, this buildup causes farmers and the agriculture sector as a whole to suffer large financial losses.

Mold Inhibitors' Function in Mycotoxin Management Mold inhibitors are vital weapons in the war against the contamination of mycotoxin. These compounds function by stopping or delaying the growth of fungi in animal feed, which lowers the possibility that mycotoxin synthesis may occur. The efficient application of mold inhibitors can make a major contribution to keeping cattle healthy and feed quality intact.

Using mold inhibitors has several advantages, including:

Increased animal feed shelf life and nutritional value preservation

Decrease in the production of mycotoxin

Increased palatability of the feed

Increased feed effectiveness

Mould Inhibitors: Types There are various kinds of mold inhibitors that can be used in animal feed, including:

 -Organic acids: To stop the growth of fungi, propionic acid, formic acid, and their salts are frequently utilized. - Antioxidants: Substances that assist in stopping oxidation and the growth of mold include butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). - Sorbates: Mold and yeast development are efficiently inhibited by potassium sorbate and other sorbate compounds. - Essential oils: Plant-based natural substances with antibacterial qualities include thymol and carvacrol.

Feed Management: Using Mould Inhibitors In order to optimize the efficacy of mold inhibitors, farmers and feed makers had to contemplate the subsequent measures:

- Appropriate storage: To reduce moisture buildup, keep feed ingredients and completed feed in clean, dry environments with sufficient ventilation. - Frequent monitoring: Establish a thorough program of observation to evaluate feed quality and identify possible mold growth early. - Application on time: To stop the first stages of fungal growth, apply mold inhibitors as soon as you can after harvest or during feed processing. -  Appropriate dosage: To guarantee maximum efficacy without sacrificing feed safety, adhere to the manufacturer's recommendations for dosage.

An integrated strategy Utilize resistant crop varieties and appropriate crop rotation in conjunction with other mycotoxin management techniques, such as the use of mold inhibitors.  

Challenges: Although mold inhibitors are useful instruments for controlling mycotoxin, using them presents some difficulties: Regulatory compliance: Farmers are required to make sure that selected mold inhibitors are authorized for usage and to follow local laws governing the use of feed additives.

Regarding costs: The possible financial consequences of mycotoxin contamination should be evaluated against the added cost of mould inhibitors. Resistance development: Using the same mold inhibitors over time may cause fungal strains to become resistant, which calls for switching out the inhibitors. Impact on the environment: There is a need for more environmentally friendly substitutes because certain synthetic mold inhibitors may have negative effects on the environment. In summary Mold inhibitors are essential for feed safety and mycotoxin management. Farmers can guarantee the safety and quality of food products, safeguard livestock health, and drastically lower the risk of mycotoxin contamination by implementing these materials into feed management procedures. New and improved mold inhibitors may be developed as this field of study progresses, which would improve the ability to address mycotoxin-related issues in food production and agriculture.

[greenglowinspooks]

(DCxDP) The obligations of a rogue versus those of a parent (pt. 2)

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Tw: N/A

Will be crossposted to AO3 eventually

(Pt. 1 here) - (Pt. 3 here)

(Masterlist/subscription post)

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It was a beautiful morning. Somehow, against all odds, the sun was shining through the thick smog perpetually covering Gotham.

And Danny hated it.

He was in pain, he was exhausted, he was grieving, and all he wanted to do was sleep for at least a week.

In an act of celestial mockery, the sun shone regardless.

After around twenty minutes of tossing and turning in bed, trying to get back to sleep, Danny gave up and pried himself out of bed.

He stumbled through the hallway and into the living room, staring openly at every splash of color he saw in the small apartment. He hadn’t forgotten what color looked like in the time he was in the lab, but it was comforting to see.

Someone cleared their throat. Danny whipped his head around, eyes falling on a scrawny, gangly man sitting down in a worn armchair, hunched over a laptop. He was looking at him with a dull, bored expression.

Right. Scarecrow.

His escape.

The chase.

His mom.

“You look a lot less terrifying without the mask,” Danny blurted out, slapping his hand over his mouth. “I didn’t mean that.”

“Well, I certainly wouldn’t call my normal appearance frightening,” Scarecrow hummed, focusing his attention back onto the laptop, “that’s what the costume is for, after all.”

“Oh.”

After a brief moment of excruciating silence, Scarecrow spoke.

“You any good with computers, Danny? Hacking, and all that?”

Danny jolted. Scarecrow needed his help with something! This was great! Now, he’d have more of a reason not to get rid of him!

“Oh, uh, yeah! Not as good as my friend Tucker, but I think I’m pretty good.”

“And you’re familiar with the GiW’s systems specifically,” Scarecrow continued, beckoning him over. Danny complied, shuffling over awkwardly. “Right?”

“Well, I guess? My friends and I got into their stuff a couple of times before they…”

“Wonderful,” Scarecrow said, standing up with a stretch. He shoved the laptop into Danny’s hands and gestured for him to sit down on the couch. “Then you can hack into their system and extract whatever files you can find.”

Danny stared at the man like he’d lost his mind. He looked back at him expectantly.

Danny sat down.

“Yeah, I-I can do that. Tuck and I built a back door into their system ages ago,” he said, checking the screen. It was clear that for all the skills that Scarecrow had, hacking was definitely not one of them. “But, uh, don’t you have someone else that usually does this sort of thing for you? Not that I’m complaining!”

Scarecrow scowled, and Danny felt his heart fall into his ass.

“Usually, I do,” Scarecrow huffed, “but I chose to leave my most recent job with the Penguin early, so now there’s no way that he or Eddie will help me with anything until I make it up to them somehow.”

“Oh,” Danny said.

He had no clue whatsoever who Eddie was.

Danny got to work quickly, hoping that if he ignored the gangly man, he would leave him be. Luckily, he did just that, leaving to go work on something in another room.

Danny checked the laptop’s security before continuing Scarecrow’s progress, making sure that the GiW wouldn’t be able to grab their location.

It was…threateningly good. Whoever Eddie was, he had somehow crammed the functionality of a top-of-the-line PC into a tiny, beat-up old laptop. It almost reminded Danny of Tucker and his terrifying competence with his PDA.

Tucker.

Amity park.

Home.

Danny snapped himself out of his thoughts, tabbing back into the application Scarecrow had up and began to work his magic.

He had near full access to the entire GiW database within half an hour.

Mumbling out a quick thank-you to Tucker, he called Scarecrow over to appraise his work.

“Fixed up some food for you while you worked,” the rogue said, handing him a bowl of oatmeal, taking the laptop into his lap as he did so, “didn’t know how well you could eat, considering you’re recovering from… surgery, so I decided to stay on the safe side.”

Danny had no clue what this guy’s deal was.

He definitely did not tear up at the first genuine thoughtfulness he encountered in weeks, and he did not look away as he ate so that Scarecrow couldn’t see his face.

At least Scarecrow was too focused on the laptop to notice or care.

Or, maybe, he was just mercifully ignoring him.

Either way, Danny ate slowly, not wanting to make himself sick. He allowed himself to absentmindedly look around the room for the first time, taking everything in.

It was strangely homey. The space was filled with warm browns and yellows, a few splashes of color on the wall in the form of (obviously gifted) paintings. There was a beat-up bookshelf against the wall, clearly second-hand, filled to the brim with psychology books. On every available surface there was a different colored candle, all at different stages of use, clearly collected over the course of years.

Danny knew that the man next to him was a crazed, murderous criminal, but his home was oddly reminiscent of Jazz.

He was not about to cry.

“Danny,” Scarecrow hummed, snapping him out of his spiraling, “can you explain this to me?”

He looked over. The rogue was pointing to a new report, seemingly posted only a few hours ago.

Nodding, he took the computer into his lap, pouring over the contents.

He read the report again.

And again.

And again.

Danny swore loudly, crumpling like a wet paper bag, head in his hands.

“What?”

“It’s…” he swore again, glancing back at the laptop, “they…since you became liminal from synthetic ectoplasm, when we’re within about 500 meters of one another, our ectoplasm signatures resonate, and they can’t track us with any of their technology.”

“How is that a bad thing?”

“If we’re not that close to each other, they can track us down from anywhere in the world.”

Scarecrow went dead quiet. After what felt like the single longest minute of Danny’s life, he let out a truly exasperated sigh, slumping over in his seat.

“Yeah, me too,” Danny mumbled, utterly miserable.

“…I’ll have to move my plans back a little,” Scarecrow sighed, “I can’t drag an injured child with me when I attack the Gotham GiW base, you’ll just get in the way.”

“Oh come on,” Danny whined, “I can take care of myself just fine. Besides, Batman brings kids with him to do dangerous stuff all the time, and he’s fine!”

“Might I remind you that the second Robin died violently,” Scarecrow snapped, “and that Batman most likely has more traumatic brain injuries than all of the Gotham rogues combined. That really isn’t the winning argument you think it is.”

Danny paused, trying to think up some way to win the argument. Then, he realized what he had ignored before.

“Wait, Scarecrow, you’re gonna attack the GiW?”

“That’s the plan,” he nodded, “and call me Dr. Crane. I’m only Scarecrow when I’m in the mask.”

But,” Danny sputtered, “Sca—uh, Dr. Crane—that’s insane! The weapons they’ve got- they’ll rip you apart!”

“Not my first time,” Crane said, making Danny wince. “Besides, I have plenty of experience avoiding gunfire. I’ll live.”

“You…” Danny was silent for a while, trying to think of something to say, “fine, but you have to take me with you wherever you go. As soon as they see either of us on their radars, they’ll hunt us down.”

Dr. Crane sighed.

“…Fine. I need some time to plan anyways. Now, you’re going to help me download these files, properly format them, and send them out.”

“…Why?”

“Well, some of the other rogues might appreciate the heads up, and I’d quite like them to be indebted to me. Besides, I still need to pay back the Penguin for ditching him, and he loves knowing things that other people don’t.”

Danny paused.

“That’s an awful idea, no offense. If any of the rogues know our weaknesses, they—”

“Danny, we’re censoring everything. The only things they need to know about are the GiW specifically, and any sort of laws surrounding them.”

Danny snorted.

“You care about laws now?”

“Yes, because if we get taken to Arkham, they’ll hand us off to the GiW the moment they ask, and it’ll be completely legal.”

Oh. Danny had honestly forgotten that Arkham was an option.

“…Ok. I’ll help you. Who are we telling?”

“I don’t think you really need to know,” Dr. Crane said, the faintest shadow of an amused look on his face, “but I’ll humor you for now. We’re sending the files out to the Penguin, Riddler, Poison Ivy via Harley Quinn, Two-Face, and Red Hood.”

Danny nodded. He could live with that.

“Alright, then let’s get to work.”

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[thefawnfallacy]

Ciel likely wasn’t spoiled as the “spare” child in the same way as his brother. Privileged, yes, but less so treated to his each and every whim. The reason he is now seen as spoiled and otherwise able to get away with literal murder is because Sebastian is the one spoiling him despite having all the capabilities to not spoil him.

[thatrandomblogsays]

My wish for 2024 is that the hunger games fandom finally just be nicer to Gale. I don’t need people to ship him with Katniss. It’s just, he’s such an interesting character, he was 17/18 when rebellion starting. He had to work in the same coal mines that killed his father. He witnessed the death of thousands of his people. He managed to rescue hundreds. He became a soldier & helped fight in the war. He was utilized to help build bombs. His desire for vengeance and freedom and revenge lead to him losing his closest and oldest friend. His bomb may have killed a girl who was like a sister to him. & he’ll never know for certain He’s such an interesting and tragic figure & it makes me sad to see him reduce to the punchline of a joke.

[love-ha-fge]

KOSA UPDATE. THE CONTENT OF THE BILL HAS BEEN UPDATED TO SPECIFICALLY TARGET QUEER CONTENT. PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS.

https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids

[crazycatsiren]

"I'm not dignifying that with a reply" is honestly a great way to be on social media. Let the trolls starve.

[abirddogmoment]

Rory's first session with steadiness training and she's crushing it!

[mossiestpiglet]

[image id: a young ball python half curled up on top of a piece of cork bark, with more cork bark behind. End id.]

I thought Orville was just having a fun day of basking on his bark, but no actually he pooped in his warm hide and just was asking me to clean it.

(He’s a spider morph I was given for free, I don’t condone the breeding or sale of spider complex bps)

[marc--chilton]

(mgv) house knowing he's superfucked when wilson doesn't even have to do the Soothing Scent and Vibes thing to get house to relax about something. wilson just exists in the same space and something in house settles

[anquenin]

last post before I go to bed but ! I think that it’s not group sex that freaks astarion out post killing cazador (on the topic of him trying group sex with the drow twins) it’s the act of sleeping with strangers, people that don’t know who he is, it feels unsafe and all too reminiscent of his own trauma…i don’t know if he would be able to make the distinction, but what I feel he ends up looking in sex isn’t like it falling back in it being 100% vanilla but rather it making him feel safe and looked out for…

[planet4546b]

i think one of my favorite things about citizen sleeper and the experience of playing that game is the realization that the characters who look like cute, cozy-game-type possible friends and love interests do not care about you and are using you for their own goals. and you can use them back to get the ending you want but i felt bitter and scared and alone while playing that game and the game shrugged right back at me and said yeah. you might be.

[deepbreakfast]

[savage-rhi]

😀

[samsrosary]

i think a lot of ppl miss the fact that it isnt just the demon bklood thats the metaphor for addiction, its ruby

[dragonseeds]

You get it!! I'm not a big fan of the popular discourse around Daemon's gender issues I feel like it's just people making fun of him or it's used to diminish his relationship with Rhaenyra by saying he actually wanted to be Viserys's sisterwife and is using her as a replacement.

oh thank you! <3 also like. so glad i’ve managed to avoid most of that discourse because i simply don’t pay attention to what anyone besides my beloved mutuals say about daemon anymore. i feel like you’re 100% right about the nature of those discussions based on what little i have seen though.

the idea that daemon is using rhaenyra as a replacement for viserys just seems like the latest iteration of the “daemon’s only using her for the throne” take, which has been so thoroughly disproved at this point that people who hate daemon/their relationship and in some cases rhaenyra herself had to switch tactics to try to keep the character/relationship bashing and derision somewhat canon compliant. their relationship with each other (and with viserys) and daemon’s relationship with gender/masculinity is so much more complex and interesting.

[thepastelpeach]

how am i still seeing ppl arguing about whether or not cats should be allowed to wander outside in this day and age? i thought it was universally agreed upon like 10 years ago that its bad to let your cats outside