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Regulations for North America

US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Aflatoxin
CommodityLimit (ppb)
Corn and peanut products intended for finishing (i.e. feedlot) beef cattle300
Cottonseed meal intended for beef cattle, swine, or poultry300
Corn and peanut products intended for finishing swine of 100 pounds or greater200
Corn and peanut products intended for breeding beef cattle, breeding swine, or mature poultry100
Corn, peanut products and other animal feeds and feed ingredients, excluding cottonseed meal, intended for immature animals20
Corn, corn products, cottonseed meal, and other animal feeds and feed ingredients intended for dairy animals, for animal species or uses not specified above, or when the intended use is not known20
 
Fumonisins
CommodityLimit (ppb)
Corn and corn by-products intended for equids and rabbits5000
Corn and corn by-products intended for swine and catfish20000
Corn and corn by-products intended for breeding ruminants, breeding poultry and breeding mink (includes lactating dairy cattle and hens laying eggs for human consumption)30000
Ruminants > 3 months old being raised for slaughter and mink being raised for pelt production60000
Poultry being raised for slaughter100000
All other species or classes of livestock and pet animals10000
 
Deoxynivalenol
CommodityMaximum level (ppb)
Grains and grain by-products destined for ruminating beef and feedlot cattle older than 4 months and for chickens10000
Grain and grain by-products destined for swine5000
Grain and grain by-products destined for other animals5000
Patulin
CommodityLimit (ppb)
Apple juice, apple juice concentrate, and apple juice component of a food that contains apple juice as an ingredient50
Source
  1. https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/biological-chemical-and-physical-contaminants-animal-food/chemical-hazards#Mycotoxins​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

North American Countries

 
Countries CommoditySum of mycotoxinsLimit (ppb)
USACorn and peanut products intended for finishing (i.e. feedlot) beef cattleAflatoxin300
Cottonseed meal intended for beef cattle, swine, or poultry 300
Corn and peanut products intended for finishing swine of 100 pounds or greater 200
Corn and peanut products intended for breeding beef cattle, breeding swine, or mature poultry 100
Corn, peanut products and other animal feeds and feed ingredients, excluding cottonseed meal, intended for immature animals 20
Corn, corn products, cottonseed meal, and other animal feeds and feed ingredients intended for dairy animals, for animal species or uses not specified above, or when the intended use is not known 20
Grains and grain by-products destined for ruminating beef and feedlot cattle older than 4 months and for chickensDeoxynivalenol10000
Grain and grain by-products destined for swine 5000
Grain and grain by-products destined for other animals 5000
Corn and corn by-products intended for equids and rabbitsFumonisins5000
Corn and corn by-products intended for swine and catfish 20000
Corn and corn by-products intended for breeding ruminants, breeding poultry and breeding mink (includes lactating dairy cattle and hens laying eggs for human consumption) 30000
Ruminants > 3 months old being raised for slaughter and mink being raised for pelt production 60000
Poultry being raised for slaughter 100000
All other species or classes of livestock and pet animals 10000
Apple juice, apple juice concentrate, and apple juice component of a food that contains apple juice as an ingredientPatulin50
 
Canadanuts and nut productsaflatoxin B1B2G1G215
domestic uncleaned soft wheatdeoxynivalenol2000
wheat, oats, barley, rye, flaxseed, canola, buckwheat, soybeans, mustard seed,
peas, canada pea beans, canada triticale, canada lentils
ergotnot applicable
all feedsaflatoxin B1B2G1G220
feed for swine and poultryochratoxin A2000
T-2 toxin1000 
feed for cattle and poultrydeoxynivalenol5000
HT-2 toxin100
feed for swine, calves, dairy cattledeoxynivalenol1000
feed for gilts and sowszearalenone3000
feed for swinediacetoxyscirpenol2000
ergot alkaloids6000
feed for poultrydiacetoxyscirpenol1000
feed for cattle, sheep, horsesergot alkaloids3000
feed for chicksergot alkaloids9000
 
Mexicocereals and productsaflatoxin B1B2G1G220
cereals for bovine and porcine fattening feedstuffs200
feedstuffs for dairy cattle/poultry0
Sources
  1. https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/biological-chemical-and-physical-contaminants-animal-food/chemical-hazards#Mycotoxins​​​​​​​
  2. ​​​​​​​http://www.inspection.gc.ca/animals/feeds/regulatory-guidance/rg8/eng/1347383943203/1347384015909?chap=1
  3. FAO corporate documents repository. Worldwide regulation for mycotoxins in food and feed 2003.