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ReviewToxins2025

Are Aflatoxin Residues in Chicken Products a Real or Perceived Human Dietary Risk?

Madalitso Chelenga, Limbikani Matumba, Muloongo C Sitali, Bertha Kachala, Verson Nambuzi, Merning Mwenifumbo, Aggrey Pemba Gama, Mulunda Mwanza, Maurice Monjerezi, John F Leslie

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Review in Toxins, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Madalitso ChelengaDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Lilongwe P.O. Box 219, Malawi.ORCID 0000-0001-9926-1603
Limbikani MatumbaFoodPlus Research Group, Faculty of Life Sciences Natural Resources, LUANAR (NRC Campus), Lilongwe P.O. Box 143, Malawi.ORCID 0000-0001-9152-2450
Muloongo C SitaliDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, The University of Zambia, Lusaka P.O. Box 32379, Zambia.ORCID 0000-0003-4406-1115
Bertha KachalaFoodPlus Research Group, Faculty of Life Sciences Natural Resources, LUANAR (NRC Campus), Lilongwe P.O. Box 143, Malawi.
Verson NambuziDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Lilongwe P.O. Box 219, Malawi.
Merning MwenifumboDepartment of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR), Lilongwe P.O. Box 219, Malawi.
Aggrey Pemba GamaFood Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Food and Human Sciences, LUANAR (Bunda campus), Lilongwe P.O. Box 219, Malawi.ORCID 0000-0002-3158-0605
Mulunda MwanzaDepartment of Animal Health, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, North-West University, Private Bag X2046, Mmabatho 2745, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0002-9311-6517
Maurice MonjereziCentre for Resilient Agri-Food Systems (CRAFS), University of Malawi, Zomba P.O. Box 280, Malawi.ORCID 0000-0003-1136-0653
John F LeslieDepartment of Plant Pathology, Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center, Kansas State University, 1712 Claflin Rd., Manhattan, KS 66506, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6486-6992

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aflatoxin is a health threat to humans and domesticated animals. Chickens are often fed aflatoxin-contaminated grain and may retain some toxins in muscle, eggs, and other tissues. A critical food safety question is whether tissues from contaminated birds pose a threat to the humans that consume them. We evaluated literature published from 1984 to 2023 to determine the level of aflatoxin residues retained in chicken eggs, muscles, livers, gizzards, and hearts. In the studies evaluated (

Indexed as

AflatoxinsAnimal FeedFood ContaminationPoultry ProductsAnimalsChickensDietary ExposureHumansRisk AssessmentAflatoxinsanimal feededible tissuefood safetymaximum tolerable levelmycotoxinspoultry

Identifiers

PMID40278677
PMCPMC12031562

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