Vacature ORFFA Junior Project Manager
/in News /by MYTOXOrffa develops, customizes, sources and offers feed additives and feed additive concepts for the animal nutrition market. Orffa is in search of a new JUNIOR colleague: ORFFA Vacature 2017 Junior Project Manager Innovatie
Ghent University Joins WFPC
/in News /by MYTOXMYTOX is very enthusiastic to announce that Ghent University is now part of the World Food Preservation Centre.
Symposium of the Ghent Africa Platform – GAPSYM10: MYCOTOXINS, a food safety issue in Africa
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On 9 December 2016 the Symposium of the Ghent Africa Platform – GAPSYM10 took place. A specific session was dedicated to mycotoxins as an important food safety issue in Africa. More detailed information can be found via the following link.
AWARD fellows at Laboratory of Food Analysis
/in News /by MYTOXFrom October 2016 on, the Laboratory of Food Analysis hosts two AWARD fellows: Mrs. Marguerite Niybituronsa (Ruanda) and Mrs. Ifeoluwa Adekoya (Nee Olotu) (Nigeria). AWARD is a career-development program that since 2008 has equipped top women agricultural scientists across sub-Saharan Africa to accelerate agricultural gains by strengthening their science and leadership skills, through tailored fellowships.
Marguerite will perform research on the incidence of aflatoxins in soybean and fermented soybean milk, and will also address nutritional values to the fermented soybean milk. Ifeoluwa has the aim to unravel the incidence of mycotoxins in processed foods of the Nigerian and South-African markets. All this research is done to strengthen the position of women in the sub-Saharan research field and to acquire more safe food!
Aflatoxin outbreak in Tanzania
/in News, Uncategorized /by MYTOXWorld Health Organization (WHO) approached MYTOX to analyze food and biological samples from a Tanzanian region suffering from an aflatoxin outbreak.
Mycotoxin contamination a global food safety threat
/in News /by MYTOXMore than 25% of the world’s crops are contaminated with poisonous moulds and fungi known as mycotoxins.
5th MYTOX symposium
/in News /by MYTOX5th international MYTOX symposium: challenges and perspectives, May 11, 2016 in Ghent, Belgium.
SHORT TRAINING INITIATIVE 2014
/in News /by MYTOXFrom August 28 – September 10, 2014 the Laboratory of Food Analysis will organize the Short Training Initiative “Intensive training on mycotoxin analysis”
INTENSIVE TRAINING ON MYCOTOXIN ANALYSIS 2013
/in News /by MYTOXMycotoxin contaminations occurs world-wide and represent one of the most challenging and prominent food safety threats.