Research Area: Food Safety, Water & Sanitation

In-Mouth, Self-Disintegrating Milk Protein Puffs-I: Process Development
Journal of Food Process Engineering, August 2022

Participatory Mycotoxin Management in India and the Genetic Determinants of Symptom Manifestation in the Sorghum Grain Mold Disease Complex
Cornell University, 2020 Abstract: Mycotoxin contamination is an important constraint to food security and public health in a range of food systems. Dietary exposure to mycotoxins is associated with health and nutrition adversities in humans and livestock. Surveillance systems and management strategies are rarely attentive...

Whitman Barrett
Whitman Barrett is a PhD student in the Soil and Crop Sciences Section of the School of Integrative Plant Science at Cornell University. His work focuses on the reuse of human excreta in agriculture, with the goal of improving smallholder…

Addressing Mycotoxin Exposure across Village Food Systems in Rural India
TCI-TARINA Policy Brief No. 10, October 2017

Food Safety in India: Status and Challenges
TCI-TARINA Policy Brief No. 5, May 2017

Farmer Research Networks Enable Community-Based Mycotoxin Management in Rural Indian Villages
Agricultural Systems, Volume 192, August 2021

Essays on the Time Use and Behavioral Patterns of Women’s Access to Household Water in Rural India
Cornell University, 2020 Abstract: In this dissertation, three independent research papers are joined together by the common research theme of ‘Women’s access to household water’ in India. The first two papers are based on the self-collected data from selected villages of Jharkhand, India. In these papers,...

Mycotoxin Surveillance for Low-Resource Settings
In D. Montet, C. Brabet, R. C. Ray, and S. Galindo (Eds.), Mycotoxins in Food and Beverages: Innovations and Advances, Part I, CRC Press, 2021

Pandemics and food systems – towards a proactive food safety approach to disease prevention & management
Food Security, Online: July 2020

Exploring Aflatoxin Contamination and Household-Level Exposure Risk in Diverse Indian Food Systems
PLOS One, Online: October 26, 2020