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The Wilson Center ’ s Africa Program, Abt Associates, and the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa Present:. Mycotoxins: Triple Threat to African Development (i.e. Agriculture, Trade, and Health). Thursday, February 14, 2013 9:00am – 5:00pm - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Wilson Center’s Africa Program, Abt Associates, and the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa Present:
Mycotoxins: Triple Threat to African
Development(i.e. Agriculture, Trade, and
Health)Thursday, February 14, 2013
9:00am – 5:00pmWoodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars5th Floor Conference Room
Mycotoxins – A Mycotoxins – A Challenge to Trade and Challenge to Trade and
CommerceCommerce
Suzanne HeinenAdministratorForeign Agricultural ServiceU.S. Department of Agriculture
February 14, 2013
Aflatoxin: Impacts Food and Feed
Poultry fed with Contaminated Feed ( >500 PPB)
Pig on the right is consuming feed with aflatoxin.
Regulating Aflatoxin
Action Level
Commodity Permitted Use (Examples)
300 ppb Cottonseed mealBeef cattle, swine, poultry (regardless of age or breeding status)
300 ppb Corn, Peanut Products Finishing beef cattle (e.g., feedlot)
200 ppb Corn, Peanut Products Finishing Swine (100 lbs or more)
100 ppb Corn, Peanut ProductsBreeding beef cattle, breeding swine, mature poultry
20 ppbCorn, Peanut Products, Other Animal Feed/Feed Ingredients1
Immature animals, dairy animals
0.5 ppb (M1)
Milk
1Excluding cottonseed meal except for use in feeding dairy animals
20 ppb Corn, Peanut Products Human food
Specific Incidents of Aflatoxin Contamination in West Africa
PRIMARY PRODUCTS
• Maize: 4,000 – Benin
• Peanut: 925 – Burkina
• Sorghum: 80 – Ghana
• Rice: 372 – Nigeria
• Millet: 200 – Nigeria
• Tiger nuts: 120 – Nigeria
FOOD PRODUCTS• Peanut paste: 3,278 –
Ghana• Peanut sauce: 943 –
Ghana• Leaf sauce: 775 – Gambia• Maize dough: 313 – Ghana• Kenkey: 524 – Ghana• Cashew paste: 366 –
Ghana• Peanut oil: 500 – Nigeria• Yam flour: 7,600 – Nigeria• Local beer: 135 – Nigeria
LEVELS SHOWN IN
PPB
CODEX: 10-15 PPB FOR HUMAN FOOD
USES OTHER THAN MILK
Toward Improved Trade
Standards
Farmer awareness
Organized commodity markets
Sampling & testing regime
Laboratory system
Participation in international standards organizations
Strong industry organization
Transparent & scientific regulatory system