HGCA risk assessments are still required at all intakes for human consumption and breakfast cereal manufactures and certain specific mills will still require tests.
The NFU advises members to check with their merchant or co-operative if supplying a specialist market.
The risk to food safety from the principle mycotoxins varies from year to year and is largely weather dependent. During the past five years a strategy has been evolved to produce a relatively simple system that provides safeguards along the supply chain.
Members of nabim have agreed a sector position for the management of Don and Zon in wheat from the 2011 harvest. This will remain in place until harvest 2012, when the situation will be reviewed by collecting data from intake samples from, at least, the first six weeks following the new harvest.
The key points for 2011 are as follows:
Source: NFU
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