Mycotoxin
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The LEAP-Agri research project MycoSafe-South has three PhD scholarships available for African students to study and conduct research on mycotoxins in Belgium and Kenya. “European-African partnership for safe and efficient use of mycotoxin-mitigation strategies in sub-Saharan Africa” intends to harness the expertise and infrastructure available in Europe by strengthening the capacity of the Southern partners…
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The deadline has been extended to submit an abstract for the 2nd African Symposium on Mycotoxicology (ASM), which will be held 24 to 27 June 2018 in Mombasa, Kenya under the auspices of the International Society on Mycotoxicology (ISM). The conference will be held at the Leisure Lodge Resort in Mombasa, Kenya. The conference theme…
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An aflatoxin research guide previously sold by the World Health Organization now is available for free as a downloadable PDF. “Improving Public Health through Mycotoxin Control” contains a “scientific description of the occurrence and effects of mycotoxins but also goes further by outlining approaches to reduce mycotoxin exposure aimed at improving public health in low-income…
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A new report by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) found that aflatoxin likely is causing widespread stunting in children throughout Africa and Asia. The results and analysis of possible interventions are published in the report Mycotoxin Control in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, which is…
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This month’s Research Spotlight within the Peanut & Mycotoxin Innovation Lab is Dr. Boris Bravo-Ureta, a professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Connecticut and a Visiting Professor of Agricultural Economics at the University of Talca in Chile. He is currently leading a project with the Peanut & Mycotoxin…
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TOPIC: Mycotoxin Threats to the Food Chain and How to End Those Threats SPEAKER: Professor Dan Brown, Department of Animal Science. Cornell University Dan Brown is a nutritionist seeking to remove constraints to the sustainable delivery of high quality nutrients to vulnerable members of the world`s population through improvement of animal agricultural systems. Of particular…
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Dr. Nick Magnan is the Lead Scientist on PMIL’s, “Producer and Consumer Interventions to Decrease Peanut Mycotoxin Risks” in Ghana project. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in international development. Nick’s…
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