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ISSN: 2360-7874 |
Academic Research Journal of
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Vol. 8(3), pp. 174-188, April 2020 Research Aflatoxines Contaminations Levels in Animal Feeds and Milk around Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Lamesgen Yegrem*
*Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Centre, EIAR, P.O. Box 2003, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Correspondence should be addressed to: E-mail: lamesyegrem@gmail.com
Accepted 30 April 2020
Aflatoxins are toxic and carcinogenic metabolites produced by a variety of fungi. Risk of aflatoxin contamination of commodities in the world, especially in Africa which in turn in Ethiopia were increasing. Aflatoxins are natural toxins that contaminate various types of feedstuffs and food leading to health risk in both humans and animal feeds. Milk is a highly nutritious food, and it is a source of necessary macro- and micronutrients for the growth, development and maintenance of human health. This work was conducted to review the level of aflatoxin in animal feeds and milk samples collected from high potential place around Addis Ababa district, most milk products supplied for the great city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. Aflatoxin B1 and M1 are the major carcinogenic type frequently found in animal feed and milk, respectively thus posing a significant impact on human health. The results of the present review have shown that aflatoxin contamination in samples of animal feeds and milk were alarmingly high in major both samples. This is evidently posing a dangerous problem to the feed and milk industry as well as human health. Animal feeds specially prepared from industrial by products like noug cake highly contaminated with aflatoxin B1 which leads to contaminate produced milk also. Many researches indicated that animal feeds are highly affected by aflatoxin B1 which is the most common aflatoxin in the county and Aflatoxin M1 was also the greater aflatoxin which is found greater than the standard in the produced milk. This indicates that a lot of developing countries including Ethiopia are at risk of aflatoxin contamination in milk. Lack of awareness on aflatoxin contamination increases the risk of damage to human and animals. High economic losses due to aflatoxin occur in the country livestock feeds and milk.
Key words: Aflatoxin, Feedstuffs, Milk, Carcinogenic, Aflatoxin B1and Aflatoxin M1
How to cite this article (APA Style): Lamesgen Y (2020). Aflatoxines Contaminations Levels in Animal Feeds and Milk around Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Acad. Res. J. Agri. Sci. Res. 8(3): 174-188
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