A TWO-day workshop in Bujumbura has been told of the serious threat that aflatoxin contamination poses to citizens of East Africa. The main objective of the inception workshop held in the Burundian capital was to introduce to key stakeholders the components and implementation arrangements of the EAC Regional Project on Aflatoxins and to constitute the EAC Regional Experts Working Group on Aflatoxins (REWGA).

Opening the workshop over the weekend, Burundi's Minister for Agriculture Odette Kayitesi said the project was expected to tremendously contribute to food security and safety through aflatoxin control and prevention in the region. In a speech read on