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Aflatoxins: Poisoning Health and Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa

2015-11-20 16:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: Aflatoxin contamination is a growing threat to trade, food and health security in sub-Saharan Africa, where smallholder farmers are challenged by food production and now climate change, researchers said. Aflatoxins are toxic and cancer causing poisons produced by certain green mould fungus that naturally occurs in the soil. The poisons have become a serious contaminant of staple foods in sub-Saharan Africa including maize, cassava, sorghum, yam, rice, groundnut and cashews. The International...

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