Malawi’s food security threatened by contaminated groundnuts
| Due to inadequate pre- and post-harvest practices such as bad drying and storage, crops like peanuts are prone to high contamination by aflatoxins (highly toxic but naturally occurring mycotoxin fungi). In Malawi, an estimated 60 per cent of peanuts (called groundnuts) are not tested for these lethal toxins while has claimed several lives in the past. Read more here. |
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