Dr. Umar Aitsaam

This study mapped global cadmium levels in rice, revealing significant regional variation, frequent regulatory exceedances, and highlighted East Africa as a prime source for low-cadmium rice, providing critical insights for heavy metal certification and food safety programs.

This review addresses arsenic and cadmium accumulation in rice, mechanisms of transfer, and mitigation strategies, providing critical guidance for heavy metal certification programs concerned with food safety and regulatory compliance.

An integrated cassava-safety strategy clean sourcing, cultivar control, processing refinements, and ICP verification minimizes Pb and Cd, safeguards infant foods, and enhances regulatory confidence across supply chains.

This review links a gluten-free diet heavy metals exposure to rice-based ingredients, quantifies biomarker elevations, and outlines HTMC-ready testing, sourcing, and labeling strategies to reduce arsenic and mercury risk across life stages.

A global review documents heavy metal contamination in roadside vegetables, quantifies exceedances, maps pathways from vehicles to humans, and defines exclusion distances and testing needs for HTMC policy.

The review quantifies cassava hydrogen cyanide safety across products, ranks detox methods, flags heavy-metal and aflatoxin co-risks, and outlines HTMC-ready controls.

Biochar and poultry manure reduce cassava heavy metals while improving protein and ash content on mine-degraded soils, informing HTMC criteria.

The study links growth period and plant part to heavy metal bioaccumulation in crops, finding frequent exceedances in leaves and short-term species, with seeds and fruits often safer. Evidence guides HTMC sampling, limits, and safer-crop recommendations.

Combined physical, chemical, and biological strategies deliver the most reliable heavy metal contaminated soil remediation outcomes, with dust control and pH management central to HTMC-aligned risk reduction.

This research demonstrates that intercropping significantly reduces cadmium and lead levels in soil and edible tuber tissues, supporting safer food production and aiding heavy metal certification compliance.