Fungal contamination of cereal grains poses a substantial threat to food security and public health while causing hundreds of millions of dollars in economic losses annually. In a new study, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign evaluated far-ultraviolet C -- far-UVC -- light as a safe way to alleviate fungal contamination of corn and wheat and found that technology to be effective.
Light technology mitigates contamination
From left, Yi-Cheng Wang and Zhenhui Jin work together on the study "Mitigating fungal contamination of cereals: The efficacy of microplasma-based far-UVC lamps against Aspergillus flavus and Fusarium graminearum."
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