Economic impact of aflatoxin contamination in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mycotoxins: Detection Methods, Management, Public Health and Agricultural Trade

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 67-76

  Coulibaly, Ousmane ^a   Hell, Kerstin ^a   Bandyopadhyay, Ranajit ^b   Hounkponou, Said ^a   Leslie, John F ^c  

^a Biocontrol Centre for Africa   (Benin)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL AGRICULTURE   (Nigeria)

^c KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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