This year not only ushered in a new decade, but the arrival of COVID-19 and a new era demanding calm leadership and a willingness to work together to seek scientific solutions for a better world.

To many readers, the impact of aflatoxins is familiar, but it bears repeating. Each year around 4.5 billion people are exposed to aflatoxins, which are known to contaminate 25 per cent of the world’s crop area.

Dr. Guangtao Zhang shares how scientific collaboration has been the bedrock of our approach at the Mars Global Food Safety Center (GFSC) since we opened back in 2015.