Communicational Strategies to Prevent Mycotoxins Exposure and Improve Community Health in Developing Countries

Communicational Strategies to Prevent Mycotoxins Exposure and Improve Community Health in Developing Countries

Gesessew, K. L.

Wollega University

In the response to sequential outbreaks of serious and long-lasting effect of mycotoxins in developing countries which is responsible for deaths of people, strategies are required and transferred within the community. The aims of the paper is to pinpoint community wellbeing strategies for the reduction of mortality and morbidity incidences associated with the consumption of mycotoxins-contaminated food in the emerging countries and to shape an assimilated plan that supplementary successfully pools farming approaches and public health to the control of mycotoxins. Communicational strategies are important to address potential remedial points about mycotoxins and identify gaps in current information around critical and chronic human health effects of mycotoxins, reconnaissance and diet monitoring, and the ability of intervention strategies. Accordingly, different melodies should be emerged commencing the works and deserve immediate responsiveness such as; quantifying the effect on the health of human and the problem of infection because of mycotoxins experience; assembling an record and appraise the efficiency of on-going intervention strategies; improve and expand the disease investigation, nutrition monitoring, research laboratory, and community health reaction capability of exaggerated areas; and emerging a response practice that can be used in the happening of an eruption of mycotoxins effect.

Keywords: mycotoxins, exposure, strategy, health risk

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Gesessew, K. L. Communicational Strategies to Prevent Mycotoxins Exposure and Improve Community Health in Developing Countries. International Research Journal of Public Health, 2022; 6:65. DOI: 10.28933/irjph-2021-12-0805

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