Study: Poultry food responsible for cancer [Archives:2005/870/Local News]

SANA'A- According to a recent study submitted a few days by a Yemeni MA scholar, there is a connection between poultry food and cancer among consumers.

A variety of tumors in Yemen putting consumers at risk are linked to contamination of fast foods with mycotoxins. The study, a thesis by Hameed al-Jabr, a postgraduate from Sana'a University, from which he had also obtained his masters degree, the Faculty of Agriculture, surveyed samples of wheat, beans and corn from Sana'a, Taiz, Ibb and Thamar. The study warned of the fungal toxins affecting cereals, which are consumed as key sources of calories. The study focused on 29 different poultry foods as part of the human nutrition. In the context of toxicity degrees of fungal metabolites, al-Jabr classified the fungi-produced toxins to aflatoxins, vomitoxins, and aveumozens. They result in allergic reactions, reproductive failure, unthriftiness, loss of appetite, suppression of the immune system and decreased nutritious efficiency.
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