EFSA has launched a public comment period on risks to public health from aflatoxins in food. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain (CONTAM) concluded ...

Aflatoxin is a toxin produced by fungi and these fungi grow well under hot and humid conditions in decaying vegetables in soil Aflatoxins were isolated and characterized in the 1960s after the spread ...

Symmetric B1 ES and Symmetric Total ES can have two different extractions. One will be 70% methanol and the second is ‘green’ as it involves water and a specific buffer. The coefficient variant (CV) ...

Rice—white, fluffy, pure, nutritious—can nevertheless carry fungal poisons called aflatoxins. Two years ago, Je Won Park and his colleagues reported that “rice is the major contributor to the dietary ...

The United States has limited controls to manage aflatoxin contamination in peanuts for export to Europe, according to findings from an audit carried out because of regular detection of ...

Researchers have demonstrated a promising sterilization technique that uses X-ray irradiation to reduce Aspergillus flavus viability in contaminated corn. This method achieves sterilization without ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- LLNL researchers have found that a small dose of chlorophyll or chlorophyllin, found in green leafy vegetables, could reverse the effects of aflatoxin poisoning, a potent, naturally ...

Employees winnow dried maize in a farm. Maize is considered one of the best hosts of the aflatoxin-causing fungi and hence stored maize can accumulate toxins such as aflatoxin when not dried properly.

Maize was first introduced in Uganda in 1861 and by 1900 it had become a major crop, grown for both commercial and home consumption needs. Hundreds of years later, the cereal is one of the major ...

In 2023, the minister of state for health, Margret Muhanga, sounded an alarm, saying that on average, the country was receiving between 170-200 liver cancer patients cases per year, but between 48 to ...