Sunday, June 6, 2010

Kenya Maize Harvested Contaimination by toxins

The Kenyan government announced that 2.3million bags of maize was contaminated with high levels of lethal aflatoxins which has already killed one child. The government decided to buy the contaminated corn and destroy it. One farmer told BBC that they are buying it for much less then it is worth. BBC's Anne Waithera said that because it was a heavy rainfall last year, farmers had more maize then they expected and did have the room to properly store it which caused the contaimination.

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