A systematic approach to monitoring high preharvest aflatoxin levels in maize and peanuts in Africa and Asia
| Autor: | R. Clarke, Thomas B. Whitaker, C.J. Boesch, J.I. Pitt |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Aflatoxin
business.industry 010401 analytical chemistry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health food and beverages 010501 environmental sciences Biology Toxicology 01 natural sciences 0104 chemical sciences Biotechnology chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Preharvest business Mycotoxin 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Food Science |
| Zdroj: | World Mycotoxin Journal. 11:485-491 |
| ISSN: | 1875-0796 1875-0710 |
| DOI: | 10.3920/wmj2018.2317 |
| Popis: | Aflatoxin in maize and peanuts remains a critical problem in much of Africa and Asia. Many countries in these regions lack a systematic preharvest approach for providing government agencies with warnings of a potential threat to human and animal health resulting from excessive levels of aflatoxin in crops at harvest. This paper sets out an approach to such a system. It is based on the establishment of a surveillance system in each community to monitor aflatoxin contamination resulting from drought stress before harvest and advise on remedial actions. The system should be under the control of a central government coordinator. If severe drought stress occurs, the coordinator would arrange for samples of the affected crop to be provided to a central aflatoxin laboratory established and controlled by the relevant government department. Assays from the central laboratory would be sent via the central coordinator to a government scientific advisory body, which would recommend appropriate remedial action to be taken at government level. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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