FG advocates aflatoxin management, control in Nigeria for food safety — Official
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The Federal government on Tuesday called for the management and control of aflatoxin in Nigeria’s crop value chains.
Dr Oyeleke Razak, Head of Nutrition, Crop Production, and Food Safety, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, stated this at a workshop in Abuja with the theme: ”Scaling Solutions to Control Aflatoxin in Nigeria”.
Razak explained that aflatoxin was a natural poison from some types of aspergillus fungus, primarily aspergillus falvus, found in soil and dead or decaying plants.
He further explained that aflatoxin infected crops from flowering until maturity, with Maize and groundnuts being most susceptible.