{"id":7705,"date":"2013-05-09T04:17:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T04:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rab-stakeholders-to-quantify-mycotoxin-in-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2013-05-09T04:24:27","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T04:24:27","slug":"rab-stakeholders-to-quantify-mycotoxin-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rab-stakeholders-to-quantify-mycotoxin-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"RAB &#038; Stakeholders to Quantify Mycotoxin in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda Agricultural Board (RAB) in partnership with Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-Rwanda and other Institutions, are in a two-day meeting aimed at quantifying mycotoxin in Rwanda.}}<\/p>\n<p>Mycotoxins are substances naturally produced by moulds and fungi that are normally present as some form of defence for the organism. All natural materials, and many man-made ones, are subject to contamination by moulds and fungi.<\/p>\n<p>The growth of moulds and fungi is typically encouraged by heat and the presence of moisture, however their toxin production is dictated by other factors that induce stress including drought.<\/p>\n<p>This meeting is the beginning of a deep research that will focus on cassava and maize crop in Rwanda, as they are among the most vulnerable to mycotoxin and they occupy a big place of agro-climatic zone in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Quantification of mycotoxin contamination is a first and essential step in protecting people from this substance that affect food and feeds by causing illness of varying severity and death in animals and humans.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2651 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_0816.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2650 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rab3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2652 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rab.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda Agricultural Board (RAB) in partnership with Rwanda Bureau of Standards (RBS), International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-Rwanda and other Institutions, are in a two-day meeting aimed at quantifying mycotoxin in Rwanda.}} Mycotoxins are substances naturally produced by moulds and fungi that are normally present as some form of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[624],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-jean-claude-ntawitonda"],"bylines":[{"id":624,"name":"Jean Claude Ntawitonda","slug":"jean-claude-ntawitonda","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":624,"name":"Jean Claude Ntawitonda","slug":"jean-claude-ntawitonda","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7705"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}