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Aflatoxin may be a technical sounding name but its effects are all over our stores and dinner tables. Since it is a tasteless and odourless poison, aflatoxin has in the past crept into dinner tables unannounced through contaminated grains.
In 2004, 125 Kenyans died because of consuming aflatoxin-infested food. Six years later in 2010, the government issued a public safety alert after finding that aflatoxins in maize in eastern Kenya and the coastal region were above tolerable levels.
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