AflaNETNetworking on aflatoxin reduction in the food value chain

Application at BLE German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food

Joint cooperation in the area of combating Aflatoxin contamination

Department of Safety and Quality of Cereals

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Associated partners

JKI Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants (Büchs, Ellner, Rodemann)

FLI Federal Research Institute for Animal Health (Dänicke) PAEPARD/EAFF Platform for African – European Partnership / Eastern Africa Farmers

Federation (Muchiri) UNBO University of Nairobi (Kang’ethe) KALRO Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (Nkonge) ILRI International Livestock Research Institute (Grace, Lindahl) AflaStop Project funded by the ACDI/VOCA organization (Walker) GIZ GmbH Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (Bahm)

MRI – Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and Food

The goal is to initiate a long-lasting scientific network between African and German

partners by working out the possibilities to reduce aflatoxins in the food value chain

via close contacts.

Project leader MRI Federal Research Institute of Nutrition and FoodDr. Christine Schwake-Anduschus

Budget 173.312 – Duration: 13 month

Workpackages

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WP 2 Applicability of rapid test kits for aflatoxin detection

(Schwake-Anduschus)

WP 3Aflatoxin M1 development:Knowledge about the ratio B1 feed/M1milk (Walte)

WP 4Aflatoxin B1 inactivation ofbiosynthesis at the molecular level

(Geisen, Schmidt-Heydt)

WP 6 dissemination of project results, Networking East-Africa and Kenya-Germany

Prospects of Minimization of Aflatoxin in Feed and Food in KenyaLong lasting Cooperation of

German Federal Institutes and Kenyan/ East-African Key Actors

Installation of sustainable relationships

WP 1Liasion officer in KenyaExcursion andExperts survey on siteConference and exchangewith scientists and active groups in Kenya, e.g. EAFF, KALRO, ILRI, PACA, MRI, JKI, FLI

Germany Kenya

WP 5 Capacity building: visits of Kenyan scientists at MRI

Please contact the project leader

Dr. Christine Schwake-Anduschus

Max Rubner-Institut

Department of Safety and Quality of Cereals

Schuetzenberg 12

32756 Detmold, Germany

Tel 0049 (0) 5231 741 132

Christine.Schwake-Anduschus@mri.bund.de

www.mri.bund.de

Advisory participation is appreciated !

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