The various types of cassava meals provide about 65% of total calorie intake of the poor of Nigeria and indeed of sub-Saharan Africa. Gari can be consumed in various forms, including flakes or made into a dough-like paste called eba and consumed with soup or sauce. Micronutrient deficiencies...
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In Africa, livestock production currently accounts for about 30% of the gross value of agricultural production. However, production is struggling to keep up with the demands of expanding human populations, the rise in urbanization and the associated shif
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On the other hand, Egypt, Indonesia, Turkey, China, and Nigeria are the five major wheat importing countries in the world. Therefore high and stable wheat production has central role in food security in many countries (Mitchell & Mielke, 2005). Wheat is cultivated under a wide range of ...
Likewise, our present observation of KAP about schistosomiasis is lower than studies from other endemic countries: in Yemen [22, 23], in Kenya [24,25,26], in South Africa [6], in Uganda [27], in Nigeria [28], and in Mozambique [29]. This difference may be due to the geographical ...
Common bean is a legume that belongs to the family Leguminosae, a native to America even though its exact place of origin is unknown (Salcedo 2008; Gentry 1969). It is one of the oldest crops cultivated (Geil and Anderson 1994). Common bean, because of i
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Stenske KA, Smith JR, Newman SJ, et al. Aflatoxicosis in dogs and dealing with suspected contaminated commercial foods. J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2006;228:1686–91. ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar . Download references Acknowledgements We acknowledge and thank management of the School of Veterinary Medicine...
Food forensics is an emerging field and the initial part of this review showcases the toxic effects and the instrumental methods applied for the detection