Aflatoxin is a potent carcinogen produced by the Asergillus flavus and Aspergillus parasiticus molds, which grow on corn, peanuts, cottonseed, milk, walnuts, pistachios and Brazil nuts. The ...

After the reported deaths of at least 28 dogs, Evansville, IN-based Midwestern Pet Foods Inc. has recalled dog and cat food products after tests showed levels of Aflatoxin that exceed acceptable ...

The permitted level of aflatoxin in groundnut for human consumption, according to international standards, is 4 parts per billion (ppb) in the European Union and 20 ppb in the US. India, being ...

Mycotoxins have been on the news during the last couple of years, but it was the aflatoxins’ case (a sub-group of mycotoxins) which drew the public’s attention. Highly toxic chemical compounds, ...

Sunshine Mills Inc. is recalling certain products because of potentially elevated levels of aflatoxin above the allowable limit. Aflatoxins are mycotoxins and are dangerous because of their high level ...

Three months after Midwestern Pet Foods recalled some of its products because of a risk of aflatoxin poisoning, the company is pulling dozens more of its pet foods off the shelves. The concern this ...

Climate change is expanding the reach of aflatoxin, a chemical produced by a gray-green mold that infects corn crops and could threaten widespread damage to the country’s lucrative Corn Belt.

Food supply issues aren’t uncommon in Africa. Famines caused by drought, flood, or conflict are frequent. But there is another constant threat to the continent’s food security that receives little ...

Indian agricultural scientist Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur may hold the key to solving a major public health crisis, by using biotechnology to develop groundnut crops resistant to infection by a ...

A new technology has enabled to suppress the aflatoxin-producing fungus in groundnut. The discovery has the potential to drastically improve food safety and reduce losses caused by the contamination ...

Wild birdseed contained higher levels of aflatoxins and other mycotoxins than any other kind of pet food analyzed in studies done around the world, a new review of those studies reports in an article ...