AI Article Synopsis
- - Climate change is leading to the invasion of toxic plants, which poses risks to human health and food safety.
- - A recent incident linked cereal products from the World Food Programme to toxic contamination from invasive common thorn-apple seeds.
- - As global conditions continue to change, the contamination of food by plant toxins is likely to become more frequent.
Article Abstract
Climate-driven invasions of toxin-producing plants compromise human health, food safety, and food security. A recent poisoning that involved cereal products distributed by the World Food Programme revealed contamination with tropane alkaloids from seeds of invasive common thorn-apple. With continued global change, plant toxin contaminations could become a more widespread phenomenon.
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