Sentences with phrase «aflatoxin poisoning»

Signs of aflatoxin poisoning include: Loss of appetite, yellow whites of the eyes, yellow gums, and yellow skin on the belly, severe, persistent vomiting, bloody diarrhea, discolored urine, and fever.

The rats on the low - casein diet were more vulnerable to acute aflatoxin toxicity — they were more likely to die right away from aflatoxin poisoning than the high - casein rats.

Based on the studies I was able to access and what I could gather the abstracts of others, it seems for the most part the rats having problems MJ attributes to «protein deficiency» (stunted growth, increased susceptibility to aflatoxin poisoning etc.) were weanlings.

Rare outbreaks of aflatoxin poisoning in India and Kenya have killed hundreds.

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The fungus itself is not dangerous, but the poison it releases, known as «aflatoxin,» is.

And public health experts believe that as many as 500 million poor people in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America are being slowly poisoned by long - term cumulative exposure to aflatoxins, which can stunt a child's growth, suppress the immune system and lead to liver damage or cancer.

In their initial experiments, Drott and colleagues confirmed that the poison appears to protect the mold against the insects: When they added aflatoxin to the fruit fly larvae's food, the maggots died and the fungus flourished.

The poison known as aflatoxin that contaminates food supplies can delay children's development and stunt their growth.

At acute levels, aflatoxins can poison people or animals, killing them outright.

For instance, it would be unethical to dose a group of volunteers with high - cholesterol foods to see if they had more heart attacks, or to feed them high doses of the fungal poison aflatoxin to determine whether they suffered more cases of liver cancer.

Many people don't know that tree nuts like pecans, walnuts, and pistachios are poisoned with something called Aflatoxin.