MYCOTOXINS
The killer in your feed room
M
arch this year was a
particularly wet
month and
smallholders should have
been on the look-out for
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your house is at the rear of
the plot you should be able
simply to cut off the front half
in a subdivision and sell it off
when the land is no longer
needed, using the money
thus generated either to put
up additional dwellings (eg for
now-adult children or
grannies, or for rental) or as a
retirement nest-egg.
Don't over capitalise. Sure,
build a comfortable house
and keep it in good condition
while you live there, but be
aware that unless it is more
than 100 years old, chances
are that the developer who
mould and fungi in their
crops, feed and fodder. This is
important because some
moulds and fungi contain
mycotoxins ~ chemicals
buys your plot is going to
demolish it before starting his
own construction. At best,
therefore, fixtures and fittings
such as roofing, trusses,
doors, flooring, windows,
baths, geysers and fireplaces
will finish up in a secondhand building supplies store
while the rest will simply be
bulldozed away and turned
into landfill.
The same goes for pathways
and drives, swimming pools,
tennis courts, stables and
outbuildings, and even
vegetation, trees etc. Only a
sensitive developer with
surplus funds is going to
produced by fungi that are
harmful to humans and
domestic animals. These
chemicals may contaminate
staple foods and feeds, posing
a number of significant food
safety concerns.
One mould species may
produce many different
mycotoxins, and the same
mycotoxin may be produced
by several species of mould.
preserve trees and shrubs in a Mycotoxins may be fatal or
development, and then only cause severe illness at very
small concentrations, often
if they are of some signifimeasured in parts per million
cance and not in positions
that will jeopardise or hinder (ppm) or parts per billion
the development. At best, he (ppb).
Even with the best quality
might arrange to have the
control systems in the world,
trees transplanted by a
professional arborist.
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