Technical and economical assessment of adding Iranian and foreign toxin binders to the diet of broiler chickens contaminated with aflatoxin using multi-attribute decision-making method

Alizadeh Ghamsari, Amir Hossein; Hosseini, Seyed Abdullah; Hajati, Hosna

doi:10.22092/asj.2025.368513.2460

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Animal Science Research Institute, Department of animal nutrition and physiology, Karaj, Iran

² Professor, Animal Science Research Institute of Iran, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Animal Science Research Institute of Iran, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Karaj, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22092/asj.2025.368513.2460

Abstract

The present experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of adding Iranian and foreign toxin binders to the diet of broiler chickens contaminated with aflatoxin, using 200 day-old Cobb 500 chicks with 5 treatments, 4 replicates, and 10 birds in each replicate. The experimental diets included: 1) a basal diet without aflatoxin and toxin binder (positive control), 2) basal diet containing 1200 ppm aflatoxin B1 and lacking toxin binder (negative control), 3) negative control+ commercial foreign toxin binder Mycofix plus® at a rate of 3 grams per kilogram, 4) negative control+ Iranian toxin binder Novitox alpha at a rate of 3 grams per kilogram, and 5) negative control+ Iranian toxin binder Novitox beta at a rate of 3 grams per kilogram of diet. After collecting data on growth performance, jejunal villus surface area, feed cost per kilogram of live body weight and total serum protein concentration of the broiler chickens at 42 days of age, a multi-attribute decision-making model was used to assess and compare the effects of using Iranian and foreign toxin binders. The results showed that the highest management score in this model belonged to the positive control treatment (0.6862), followed by negative control+ Novitox Alfa (0.6730), negative control+ Novitox Beta (0.6699), and negative control+ Mycofix Plus® (0.5852). Overall, the Iranian and foreign toxin binders used in this study were able to compensate for the performance decline caused by the presence of toxins in the diets of broilers, with a preference for using domestic products over foreign samples.

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Main Subjects

Animal and poultry nutrition

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Technical and economical assessment of adding Iranian and foreign toxin binders to the diet of broiler chickens contaminated with aflatoxin using multi-attribute decision-making method

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Volume 38, Issue 149January 2026Pages 93-104

Volume 38, Issue 149
January 2026
Pages 93-104