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Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:56:20 -0700
From: charlotte utting <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: [WASAN] FW: Fungus Linked to Stunted Growth in West African
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From: Future Harvest <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 16:45:34 -0400
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Subject: Fungus Linked to Stunted Growth in West African Children

IBADAN, NIGERIA (11 July 2002) - A research team from the International
Institute
of Tropical Agriculture (a Future Harvest Center), and the University of
Leeds,
UK, announced this week that young African children show the kind of stunted
growth usually associated with malnutrition when they eat food contaminated
with
fungal aflatoxins, a toxic by-product of molds that can grow on crops such
as
corn and peanuts if they are stored in hot and humid conditions.

The results of their study of nearly 500 young children (aged 9 months to 5
years)
from 16 villages in the West African countries of Bénin and Togo appear in
this
week's prestigious publication, the British Medical Journal.  The research,
funded
by the German development agency (BMZ), and the National Institute of
Environmental
Health Sciences, USA, shows for the first time an association between
aflatoxin
and growth effects in children.

For the news release, visit the Future Harvest website at:
<http://www.futureharvest.org>




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