Determinants of the Use of Food Safety Information for Milk Consumption in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria

Babalola, D. A.; Babalola, Yemisi T.

doi:10.1080/10496505.2016.1174131

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“…Overall, factors increasing the probability of awareness of mycotoxins among the farmers include education level and their exposure to food handling practices ( p ≤ 0.05). Thus, this result is consistent with previous studies [ 2 , 107 ].…”

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Dietary Risk Assessment and Consumer Awareness of Mycotoxins among Household Consumers of Cereals, Nuts and Legumes in North-Central Nigeria

Ezekiel

Ayeni

Akinyemi

et al. 2021

Toxins

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This study characterized the health risks due to the consumption of mycotoxin-contaminated foods and assessed the consumer awareness level of mycotoxins in households in two north-central Nigerian states during the harvest and storage seasons of 2018. Twenty-six mycotoxins and 121 other microbial and plant metabolites were quantified by LC-MS/MS in 250 samples of cereals, nuts and legumes. Aflatoxins were detected in all food types (cowpea, maize, peanut and sorghum) except in millet. Aflatoxin B1 was the most prevalent mycotoxin in peanut (64%) and rice (57%), while fumonisin B1 occurred most in maize (93%) and beauvericin in sorghum (71%). The total aflatoxin concentration was highest in peanut (max: 8422 µg/kg; mean: 1281 µg/kg) and rice (max: 955 µg/kg; mean: 94 µg/kg), whereas the totals of the B-type fumonisins and citrinin were highest in maize (max: 68,204 µg/kg; mean: 2988 µg/kg) and sorghum (max: 1335 µg/kg; mean: 186 µg/kg), respectively. Citrinin levels also reached 51,195 µg/kg (mean: 2343 µg/kg) in maize. Aflatoxin and citrinin concentrations in maize were significantly (p < 0.05) higher during storage than at harvest. The estimated chronic exposures to aflatoxins, citrinin and fumonisins were high, resulting in as much as 247 new liver cancer cases/year/100,000 population and risks of nephrotoxicity and esophageal cancer, respectively. Children who consumed the foods were the most vulnerable. Mycotoxin co-occurrence was evident, which could increase the health risk of the outcomes. Awareness of mycotoxin issues was generally low among the households.

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Dietary Risk Assessment and Consumer Awareness of Mycotoxins among Household Consumers of Cereals, Nuts and Legumes in North-Central Nigeria

Ezekiel

Ayeni

Akinyemi

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“…Research indicates that the graphic design of milk cartons influenced the consumers' choice of milk, which is considered to be the future development of milk cartons (Hollywood, Wells, Armstrong, & Farley, 2013). Conversely, food safety for milk has received much attention during recent years especially in developing countries (Babalola & Babalola, 2016;Handford, Campbell, & Elliott, 2016), which are in urgent need of a low cost and rapid milk quality check technique which can be conducted onsite at farm or home. In this study, we are trying to add a new feature besides milk storage to paper carton: a paper-based microfluidic device was integrated on milk carton for low cost and rapid onsite milk quality test.…”

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Milk carton with integrated paper‐based microfluidics for milk quality rapid test

Fan

Wang

Liu

et al. 2018

Journal of Food Safety

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This study integrated paper‐based microfluidic device on a milk carton for a rapid milk quality check. The microfluidic device was printed on the outer surface of milk carton using commercial wax printer. The testing process is fully automatic, after apply one drop of milk on the loading point, milk was driven by capillary force in the porous paper fiber in wax‐defined microchannels to reach the preload reactants for chromogenic reaction. The proposed integration method provides a simple, low cost and rapid onsite milk quality check technique for milk consumers, and also have wide potential applications in food industry. Practical applications Microfluidics has been widely used in the chemical and biological field for analysis or synthesis, in this research, the microfluidic devices were integrated on the outer surface of a milk carton for a rapid and low‐cost milk quality test, and the test result could be easily read using mobile phone app. The proposed research is of significant application prospect in food industry for rapid and onsite food quality test using the microfluidic devices integrated on paper packaging. The fabrication method of the microfluidic devices proposed in this research using wax printing is also low cost and nontoxic, and could be easily integrated with the current paper packaging production line.

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Food safety perspectives and practices of consumers and vendors in Nigeria: A review

Nordhagen

2022

Food Control

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Determinants of the Use of Food Safety Information for Milk Consumption in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria

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Dietary Risk Assessment and Consumer Awareness of Mycotoxins among Household Consumers of Cereals, Nuts and Legumes in North-Central Nigeria

Dietary Risk Assessment and Consumer Awareness of Mycotoxins among Household Consumers of Cereals, Nuts and Legumes in North-Central Nigeria

Milk carton with integrated paper‐based microfluidics for milk quality rapid test

Food safety perspectives and practices of consumers and vendors in Nigeria: A review

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