Tanzania
Status: On Sale
Aflasafe TZ01
Crops: groundnuts, maize
Where to buy
Manufacturer/Distributor: A to Z Textile Mills Limited, P.O. Box 945, Location: Kisongo, Arusha, Tanzania Telephone: +255 788 755 555 / +255 788 808 534 Email address: operations@agroz.co.tz OR info@azpfl.comContacts
- Aflasafe Business Development Specialist: Jane Kamau, j.w.kamau@cgiar.org
- R&D: Antonio Mauro, a.mauro@cgiar.org ; George Mahuku, g.mahuku@cgiar.org
News
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Aflasafe the food-safety hero, as business meets research for aflatoxin-safe food in Africa Posted on: November 29, 2019
A vision drawing on a virtuous circle – How A to Z will tackle aflatoxin in Tanzania’s food, centred on Aflasafe TZ01 Posted on: July 30, 2019
A to Z takes the director’s chair on Aflasafe TZ01 as a new act begins in Tanzania’s food-safety sprint for aflatoxin-safe groundnuts and maize Posted on: July 27, 2019
Food safety milestone for Tanzania: A to Z to manufacture and distribute Aflasafe TZ01 to fight aflatoxin Posted on: July 10, 2019
A to Z to get Aflasafe TZ01 in the hands of Tanzanian farmers to fight deadly aflatoxin in groundnuts and maize Posted on: May 7, 2019
A to Z kutengeneza na kusambaza kizuizi cha sumu kuvu – Aflasafe TZ01 – kuzuia sumu kuvu hatari kwenye mahindi na karanga kwa ajili ya wakulima wa Tanzania Posted on: May 7, 2019
Pre-commercialisation partnerships and training in Tanzania to get Aflasafe TZ01 to thousands of farmers Posted on: April 28, 2019
Paving the path to commercialisation: Aflasafe TZ01 registered to fight aflatoxin in Tanzania Posted on: February 2, 2019
Aflasafe taking off in Tanzania: Business opportunities abound at Dar es Salaam Investors Forum Posted on: September 4, 2018
Wadau wakutana kujadili jinsi ya kuanza uzalishaji mkubwa wa teknolojia ya kupambana na sumukuvu, Aflasafe TZ, nchini Tanzania Posted on: September 3, 2018
Tanzania makes headway in battle against cancer-causing aflatoxins Posted on: September 3, 2018
All systems go for Aflasafe TZ in Tanzania to protect groundnuts and maize from deadly aflatoxin Posted on: July 25, 2018
Press releases
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- Aflasafe the food-safety hero, as business meets research for aflatoxin-safe food in Africa Posted on: November 29, 2019
- A vision drawing on a virtuous circle – How A to Z will tackle aflatoxin in Tanzania’s food, centred on Aflasafe TZ01 Posted on: July 30, 2019
- A to Z takes the director’s chair on Aflasafe TZ01 as a new act begins in Tanzania’s food-safety sprint for aflatoxin-safe groundnuts and maize Posted on: July 27, 2019
- Food safety milestone for Tanzania: A to Z to manufacture and distribute Aflasafe TZ01 to fight aflatoxin Posted on: July 10, 2019
- A to Z to get Aflasafe TZ01 in the hands of Tanzanian farmers to fight deadly aflatoxin in groundnuts and maize Posted on: May 7, 2019
- A to Z kutengeneza na kusambaza kizuizi cha sumu kuvu – Aflasafe TZ01 – kuzuia sumu kuvu hatari kwenye mahindi na karanga kwa ajili ya wakulima wa Tanzania Posted on: May 7, 2019
- Pre-commercialisation partnerships and training in Tanzania to get Aflasafe TZ01 to thousands of farmers Posted on: April 28, 2019
- Paving the path to commercialisation: Aflasafe TZ01 registered to fight aflatoxin in Tanzania Posted on: February 2, 2019
- Aflasafe taking off in Tanzania: Business opportunities abound at Dar es Salaam Investors Forum Posted on: September 4, 2018
- Wadau wakutana kujadili jinsi ya kuanza uzalishaji mkubwa wa teknolojia ya kupambana na sumukuvu, Aflasafe TZ, nchini Tanzania Posted on: September 3, 2018
- Tanzania makes headway in battle against cancer-causing aflatoxins Posted on: September 3, 2018
- All systems go for Aflasafe TZ in Tanzania to protect groundnuts and maize from deadly aflatoxin Posted on: July 25, 2018
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How to use Aflasafe
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Press cuttings
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November 2019
Tanzania has been successful in developing a biocontrol product known as Aflasafe TZ01, which is already registered for commercial use in the country. A private company is investing in a manufacturing plant and is organising marketing and the distribution of the life-saving product...
July 2019
BELGIUM Ambassador to Tanzania Peter Van Acker has commended the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Tanzania for innovation of bio-control product technology—‘aflasafe’ to address toxic chemicals in crops that can cause cancer and suppress body immune...
June 2019
THE Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority (TFDA) has called for potential mitigation measures to control food contamination from aflatoxins since the poison has so far affected the health and lives of people in Tanzania, Kenya and some other parts of the world...
May 2019
Efforts are now underway to commercialise local production and distribution of the solution “to efficiently and rapidly reach all corners of Tanzania,”...
Scientific trials against aflatoxin, a carcinogenic fungus found in food crops notably maize, have proved successful in Tanzania. Trials carried on maize fields in Morogoro, Dodomo, Manyara and Mtwara regions indicated that the toxin can be tamed through the application of Aflasafe, a natural solution of four fungal strains...
KIWANDA cha A to Z cha jijini hapa kimeingia mkataba wa bilioni 3.5 wa kuzalisha dawa aina ya AFLASAFE ya kutibia mazao yanayosababisha sumukuvu inayopatikana kwenye mahindi na karanga na ambayo imekuwa ikisababisha maradhi ya saratani ya ini...
February 2019
The U.S. government in partnership with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), has announced the availability of AflasafeTZ, an effective technology to reduce aflatoxin contamination in human food and animal feed...
October 2018
Eleven undergraduate students from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), Tanzania, spent five weeks at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Eastern Africa hub office in Dar es Salaam, as part of their field practical experience...
Radio broadcast on aflatoxin in Africa, discussing Aflasafe in Tanzania from c. 33:45: Aflatoxins pose a threat to food security, public health, as well as trade in Africa; and the need for its control can never be overemphasized! PACA is a collaboration of stakeholders aimed at protecting crops, livestock and people from the effects of Aflatoxins...
Aflatoxins are toxic and carcinogenic substances produced by certain fungi which commonly contaminate a wide range of staple food and cash crops in Africa and other tropical and sub-tropical regions...
The Government of Tanzania has been selected for the African Union (AU) Award 2018 as an Agent of Change for Aflatoxin Control in Africa by the Third Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA)...
September 2018
The government in collaboration with food researchers is in the process of setting up a plant for production and distribution of ‘Aflasafe’ a product meant to control poison in food...
Taasisi ya Kimataifa ya Kilimo cha Kitropiko (IITA), ina mkakati wa kuanza kuzalisha dawa aina ya Aflasafe ya kuuwa wadudu wanaotokana na mazao ya nafaka, ikiwemo mahindi na karanga ili kuepukana na gharama za kuagiza nje ya nchi...
International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) Director-Eastern Africa Hub, Dr Victor Manyong, speaks to journalists during an Aflasafe products and manufacturing stakeholders' forum to discuss how to reduce the contamination of food and feeds by aflatoxins in Dar es Salaam yesterday.
Television news coverage of Aflasafe Investor Forum, in Kiswahili. Broadcast 8pm, 3 September 2018.
Video news item. Katika juhudi za kuhakikisha kua na chakula salama kwa matumizi ya ndani na kufikia kiwango hitajika cha usafirishaji wa mazao nje ya nchi taasisi ya kimataifa ya utafiti wa kilimo cha kitropiki (IITA) wamekutana na wadau mbalimbali wa kilimo Jijini Dar es Salaam...
Video coverage in Kiswahili and English.
Tanzania will soon join other African countries in rolling out new technology that will contain cancer-causing aflatoxins. Known as Aflasafe TZ, the technology can reduce the poisonous chemical's contamination in food by 80 to 90 per cent...
Tanzania will make headway in battle against cancer-causing aflatoxins as stakeholders meet to plan commercialisation of effective, all-natural control technology—Aflasafe TZ...
August 2018
Arusha. Stringent standards by the European Union (EU) have led to Africa losing a staggering $670 million annually in exports doe to aflatoxin-contaminated food exports...
December 2017
A two-year field trial conducted in several sites across Tanzania found that a bio-control technique, known as AflasafeTZ could reduce contamination of food crops with the poisonous fungus (aflatoxins) by over 85 per cent...
A two-year field trial conducted in several sites across Tanzania found that a bio-control technique, known as AflasafeTZ could reduce contamination of food crops with the poisonous fungus (aflatoxins) by over 85 per cent...
An innovative technology known as ‘Aflasafe’ can effectively reduce poison (aflatoxin) in maize and groundnuts by over 85 per cent, according to field trials carried out in Tanzania...
A biocontrol technology called AflasafeTZ could help control the deadly aflatoxin contamination in maize and groundnuts in Tanzania, scientists say. After a two-year field trial conducted in several sites across Tanzania, AflasafeTZ reduced contamination of food crops with the poisonous fungus...
November 2017
Results from two-year field trials of AflasafeTZ, an innovative technology to control aflatoxin contamination have proven the effectiveness of the technology in reducing poison in maize and groundnuts. The trials were conducted in 11 districts of four regions in Tanzania...
October 2017
Dar es Salaam. Policy makers in the East African Community and partner states have warned that aflatoxins are a major threat to food security in the region and affect trade in food and agricultural commodities...
September 2017
Wakulima wengi hasa wa mazao ya nafaka, wanatambua namna wadudu wanavyosumbua mazao yao. Mazao kama karanga, mahindi na yale ya jamii ya mizizi na kunde, mara nyingi wanalalamika mazao yao kushambuliwa na fangasi ambao huzalisha kemikali za sumu, maarufu sumu kuvu...
March 2017
The toxic compounds produced by the green mold fungus, which can cause liver damage and cancer, occasions losses of up to 550bn/- anually, and kills at least 3,000 people within that period...
Aflatoxin, a major food poisoning fungal infestation that claims hundreds of Tanzanian lives may soon cease to be a major threat following new breakthroughs as the country's scientists finalize on-farm tests aimed at controlling its spread...
Research publications
Aflatoxin and fumonisin contamination of cassava products and maize grain from markets in Tanzania and the Republic of Congo.
Abass, A, Bandyopadhyay, R, Fandohan, P, Hell, K & Manjula, K (2009). Aflatoxin and fumonisin contamination of cassava products and maize grain from markets in Tanzania and the Republic of Congo.. Toxin Reviews, 28(2 - 3), pp. 63 - 69.
