Mycotoxin contamination in foods in West and Central Africa

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

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 103-116

  Kpodo, Kafui A ^a   Bankole, Samuel A ^b  

^a Food Research Institute Ghana   (Ghana)

^b OLABISI ONABANJO UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

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