Mycotoxins in Sub-Saharan Africa: Present situation, socio-economic impact, awareness, and outlook

P Udomkun, AN Wiredu, M Nagle, R Bandyopadhyay… - Food Control, 2017 - Elsevier
Many studies have reported the occurrence of mycotoxin in human foods and animal feeds
in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Aflatoxins, ochratoxins, fumonisins, and zearalenone are …

Microbiological safety of ready‐to‐eat foods in low‐and middle‐income countries: A comprehensive 10‐year (2009 to 2018) review

OM Makinde, KI Ayeni, M Sulyok… - … reviews in food …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ready‐to‐eat foods (RTEs) are foods consumed without any further processing. They are
widely consumed as choice meals especially by school‐aged children and the fast‐paced …

Taxonomy of Aspergillus section Flavi and their production of aflatoxins, ochratoxins and other mycotoxins

JC Frisvad, V Hubka, CN Ezekiel, SB Hong… - Studies in …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Aflatoxins and ochratoxins are among the most important mycotoxins of all and producers of
both types of mycotoxins are present in Aspergillus section Flavi, albeit never in the same …

Aflatoxin rapid detection based on hyperspectral with 1D-convolution neural network in the pixel level

J Gao, L Zhao, J Li, L Deng, J Ni, Z Han - Food Chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Aflatoxin is commonly exists in moldy foods, it is classified as a class one carcinogen by the
World Health Organization. In this paper, we used one dimensional convolution neural …

Determination of multi-mycotoxin occurrence in cereals, nuts and their products in Cameroon by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)

WA Abia, B Warth, M Sulyok, R Krska, AN Tchana… - Food Control, 2013 - Elsevier
This is a report on multi-mycotoxin occurrence in staple food commodities from Cameroon.
Samples, including maize and maize-based products, nuts and nut-based products as well …

Mycotoxin exposure in rural residents in northern Nigeria: A pilot study using multi-urinary biomarkers

CN Ezekiel, B Warth, IM Ogara, WA Abia… - Environment …, 2014 - Elsevier
A pilot, cross-sectional, correlational study was conducted in eight rural communities in
northern Nigeria to investigate mycotoxin exposures in 120 volunteers (19 children, 20 …

Recent development of optical methods in rapid and non-destructive detection of aflatoxin and fungal contamination in agricultural products

F Tao, H Yao, Z Hruska, LW Burger… - TrAC Trends in …, 2018 - Elsevier
The demand for developing rapid and non-destructive techniques that is suitable to real-time
and on-line detection of aflatoxin and fungal contamination has received significant …

Mycotoxin risk assessment for consumers of groundnut in domestic markets in Nigeria

OA Oyedele, CN Ezekiel, M Sulyok, MC Adetunji… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The fungal and multi-mycotoxin profiles of groundnuts sold in domestic markets in Nigeria as
well as the associated risk to consumers were assessed in the present study. Four hundred …

Food safety perspectives and practices of consumers and vendors in Nigeria: A review

S Nordhagen - Food Control, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of this review is to explore prior research on the food safety perspectives and
practices of consumers and vendors in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country. Through a …

[HTML][HTML] Mycotoxin-mixture assessment in mother-infant pairs in Nigeria: From mothers' meal to infants' urine

D Braun, WA Abia, B Šarkanj, M Sulyok, T Waldhoer… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Exposure to food and environmental contaminants is a global environmental health issue. In
this study, innovative LC-MS/MS approaches were applied to investigate mycotoxin co …