MycoSafe-South
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The LEAP-Agri research project MycoSafe-South, the “European–African partnership for safe and efficient use of mycotoxin-mitigation strategies in sub-Saharan Africa", intends to harness the expertise and infrastructure available in Europe by strengthening the capacity of the Southern partners to tackle the mycotoxin problem and the associated food safety issues. This project will identify safe and efficient mitigation strategies to reduce aflatoxins (AFs) and fumonisins (FBs) exposure in Africa, with special focus on children.

There is an urgent research priority for the development of safe, efficient and sustainablepost-harvest intervention strategies to reduce animal & human exposure to AFs and FBs, and applicable to both rural small-scale subsistence and commercial farming in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The consortium creates opportunities for young PhD researchers to conduct this research at both European and African institutes. There are currently PhD Scholarships available for three projects: 

  • “Safety and efficacy of mycotoxin detoxifiers in human (children): in vitro, in vivo piglet model, and human intervention study”

  • “Decreasing aflatoxin M1 contamination in milk of different African dairy species”

  • “Decreasing aflatoxins contamination in poultry food products”

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Friday, June 15, 2018