New technology to detect mycotoxins in animal feed

My research project at the University of Pretoria’s Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute is titled ‘Ensuring human food and animal feed safety: characterising sources of mycotoxin contamination’. It focuses on identifying which fungi occur on South African crops and animal feed, with the aim of developing new approaches to make their identification more robust, faster and cheaper.

THE STRUGGLE TO FEED THE MILLIONS

World hunger is one of the greatest challenges facing people. One in nine people go to bed hungry and one in three is malnourished. According to pre-COVID-19 statistics, 23% of Africa’s population are undernourished and approximately 45% of child deaths are linked to malnutrition.