Browsing Faculty of Agriculture & Veterinary Medicine (FAg / FVM) by Subject "Aflatoxins"
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The Contamination of Kenyan Lager Beers with Fusarium Mycotoxins
(Department of Food Science, Nutrition and Technology, University of NairobiDepartment of Veterinary Pathology, Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Nairobi, 2004)Seventy five samples of two popular lager beers, namely Pilsner and Tusker were randomly collected from the city of Nairobi and the surrounding satellite towns in Kenya. The samples were analyzed for the presence of 4 ... -
Diversity of Fungal Species Associated with Peanuts in Storage and the Levels of Aflatoxins in Infected Samples
(Department of Plant Science and Crop Protection, University of Nairobi, 2004)The threat of aflatoxin contamination in food commodities and its association with health risks in both animals and humans continues to raise increasing concern over years. In this report, fungal species found in association ... -
Mapping aflatoxin risk from milk consumption using biophysical and socio-economic data: a case study of Kenya
(2016)This research reports a mapping of aflatoxin risk in the milk value chain in Kenya using a geographic information systems (GIS) approach. The objective was to spatially locate regions at risk by taking into account biophysical ... -
Prevalence of aflatoxin contamination in cereals from Nandi county, Kenya
(2015)Aflatoxins are secondary fungal metabolites that contaminate cereals, other crops and animal source foods and are a recognized health risk. Kenya has had several outbreaks of aflatoxicosis affecting humans and pets. The ... -
Sclerotia Formation and Toxin Production in Large Sclerotial Aspergillus flavus Isolates from Kenya
(2016)We studied the relationship between sclerotia formation and aflatoxin production by Aspergillusflavus strains isolated from maize kernels from Nandi County. Isolates recovered from maize kernels were tested for their ability ...