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GALAC:
TECNOLOGIES FOR THE RAPID DETECTION AND CONTROL OF THE IMPACT OF MYCOTOXINS IN ANIMAL NUTRITION IN GALICIA
Aim: CLUN, in combination and collaboration with important sector companies, successfully completed the ambitious R+D project “TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE RAPID DETECTION AND SECTORAL CONTROL OF THE IMPACT OF MYCOTOXINS IN ANIMAL NUTRITION IN GALICIA (GALAC).” This project was chosen to receive economic aid in the CONECTA PYME programme to promote public and private collaboration through research and development projects in cooperation between PYMEs (small and medium size businesses) in areas strategic to the Autonomous Community of Galicia, co-financed by the European Fund for Regional Development (FEDER). The main aim of the project focuses on significantly improving the control of mycotoxins in animal feed and livestock productions in Galicia via three lines of action: i) widen the number of mycotoxins under research through the development of a new method of simultaneous analysis of a high number of mycotoxins and their metabolites in raw materials and forage and their relationship with farming problems, ii) validate rapid test kits for the analysis of mycotoxins via NIRS for its potential systematic implementation in the control of raw materials by gmp.galis at the loading bay or in community cattle feed mixing plants, and control much more efficiently the possibility of Galician livestock being exposed to mycotoxins; iii) develop a method of assessing milk cattle’s exposure to zearalenone through milk analysis. The project was led by SANOR, a micro-enterprise belonging to AGAFAC, the association of representatives from the feed production sector in Galicia, which focuses its aims on constantly improving and guaranteeing food safety in Galicia by systematically controlling the raw materials used by associated feed manufacturers, and a rapid alert system in the event a result obtained were to exceed the limit legally established or recommended in internal specifications. As partners, both CLUN and NORESGA took part in the project. CLUN, as a manufacturer of mixed feeds, a supplier of auxiliary materials and providing technical support for advice on feeds on partners’ milk cattle farms, in an effort to find the most suitable management systems; and the company NORESGA, with vast experience in analysis services in the agro-food and environmental field. Various research entities collaborated in the development of the different activities: A Coruña University’s General Research Support Services Unit (XSAI-UDC), with experience in the use of chromatographic techniques to analyse different types of samples, the Mabegondo Agricultural Research Centre (CIAM), specialising in research focused on feed for ruminants, and the Galician Aquaculture Technology Centre, CETGA, with extensive
experience in the detection of contaminants, thanks to the vast capabilities of its microbiology and parasitology laboratory and to the fully-equipped chromatography laboratory.
The development of this project is subsidised by the Galician Innovation Agency and 80% co- financed by the European Fund for Regional Development through the operational programme Feder Galicia 2014-2020 (OT 1. “Promoting technological development, innovation and high-quality research”).
Start date: 10/02/2016 End date: 30/11/2018
Aid granted: 87.735,83€


