Effect of Sepiolite and Tomato Powder on Serum Biochemical Profile of Broiler Exposed to Aflatoxin

The purpose of this research was to evaluate the effect of adding combination of sepiolite as aflatoxin binder and tomato powder (TP) as antioxidant source in aflatoxin contaminated feed on serum biochemical profile of broiler chicken. The method was in vivo experiment set in Completely Randomized Design. One hundred and twelve unsexed day old broiler chicks of Lohmann strain randomly distributed into 4 treatments and 4 replications. The treatments were consist of T0= positive control (corn contaminated 10 ppb aflatoxin), T1=negative control (corn contaminated 102.5 ppb aflatoxin), T2=T1+0.25% sepiolite, and T3=T1+0.25% sepiolite+1.5%tomato powder. The measured variables were: blood lipid profile (cholesterol and triglycerides), kidney physiology indicators (creatinine and blood urea nitrogen), and blood glucose. The data were analyzed with ANOVA and continued with Duncan's multiple range test. The result showed that addition of sepiolite and tomato powder significantly increase the triglycerides level (P<0.05), but ithad no influence on total serum cholesterol, creatinine, blood urea nitrogen, and glucose. Conclusion of this research was addition of sepiolite and tomato powder in feed with mild aflatoxin contamination could not improve the serum biochemical profiles, except triglyceride, in broiler chicken.