Mycotoxicosis
Sir: I have been asked by Dr J. Rose, FRS, the Director of the Institution of Environmental Sciences, to organise a conference on mycotoxicosis. I hope that it will take place in October this year.
Mycotoxicosis is the fungal poisoning of grain and the resultant diseases in man and beast when they eat such food. Mycotoxins enter the food chain and accumulate in human beings through our use of the products of animals fed on infested grain. For some years, Major A. Ramsay Tainsh, MBE, has published his findings in Stockholm, where he lives; and these have now come to the attention of the Swedish authorities. Little research has been done into the matter, here or abroad; and the conference will give the Major the opportunity to make his charges plain. These I mentioned in an article in The Spectator on January 19. (I am not, however, a lecturer at Salford University as you too generously said, but merely a doctoral candidate.),
I should be grateful if those who wish to take part in this conference would get in touch with me.
M. R. Brett-Crowther
54 Hawthorn Terrace, Durham.
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