Workgroup report: public health strategies for reducing aflatoxin exposure in developing countries.

Strosnider, Heather; Azziz-Baumgartner, Eduardo; Banziger, Marianne; V Bhat, Ramesh; Breiman, Robert; Brune, Marie-Noel; DeCock, Kevin; Dilley, Abby; Groopman, John; Hell, Kerstin; H Henry, Sara; Jeffers, Daniel; Jolly, Curtis; Jolly, Pauline; N Kibata, Gilbert; Lewis, Lauren; Liu, Xiumei; Luber, George; McCoy, Leslie; Mensah, Patience; Miraglia, Marina; Misore, Ambrose; Njapau, Henry; Ong, Choon-Nam; T K Onsongo, Mary; W Page, Samuel; Park, Douglas; Patel, Manish; Phillips, Timothy; Pineiro, Maya; Pronczuk, Jenny; Schurz Rogers, Helen; Rubin, Carol; Sabino, Myrna; Schaafsma, Arthur; Shephard, Gordon; Stroka, Joerg; Wild, Christopher; T Williams, Jonathan; Wilson, David

doi:10.1289/ehp.9302

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Workgroup report: public health strategies for reducing aflatoxin exposure in developing countries.

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Authors:

Heather Strosnider

Eduardo Azziz-Baumgartner

Marianne Banziger

Abstract

Consecutive outbreaks of acute aflatoxicosis in Kenya in 2004 and 2005 caused > 150 deaths. In response, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization convened a workgroup of international experts and health officials in Geneva, Switzerland, in July 2005. After dis...

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