TOPEKA – The Food and Drug administration has agreed to a request by the Kansas Department of Agriculture’s request to allow blending corn with high levels of aflatoxin to be blended with clean corn to be used for animal feed. Because of the severe drought this summer, Kansas agriculture secretary Dale Rodman said much of the corn harvested in Kansas has higher amounts of aflatoxin, a weather-related mold that can be lethal to livestock. Blenders that mix corn will have to submit forms showing how it’s mixed, the percentages and the safety of the blended corn, he said.
Monday, Oct. 8, 4 p.m.
