A few years ago, Kenya Bureau of Standard (Kebs) banned seven peanut butter brands over high aflatoxin levels. "Their levels of aflatoxin is higher than the maximum limit allowed by the Standard," ...

In Senegal, groundnut and maize are commonly contaminated with highly toxic, cancer-causing chemicals called aflatoxins, which are produced by fungi in the genus Aspergillus when they infect crops.

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 ...

Peanuts are cheap and nutritious, but can also host dangerous aflatoxin-producing fungi — now, engineers in Haiti may have found a fix. A World Health Organisation report warns that aflatoxin, which ...

Indonesia intensifies crackdown on illegal Indian groundnut imports following reports of high aflatoxin levels and rising ...

Though Indonesia has curtailed imports of groundnuts (peanuts) from India, the curbs are being overcome by illegal shipments ...

Vivian Hoffmann receives funding from the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health, the CGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM), Benckiser Stiftung ...

Maize rustles in the breeze across Tanzania's heartlands with renewed promise. Farmers who once feared consuming their own harvests now look to the future with confidence. "We used to mix mouldy maize ...