Rate My Professor Patrick Njobeh

Professor Patrick Berka Njobeh is a Professor of Food Safety and Head of the Mycotoxins Unit in the Department of Biotechnology and Food Technology at the University of Johannesburg. He holds a DTech in Biomedical Technology from the University of Johannesburg, an MTech in Monogastric Nutrition from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and a BTech in Animal Science from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University in Nigeria. His research focuses on food quality and safety, food security, feed safety, toxigenic fungi, mycotoxins synthesis and analysis, food and feed intoxication, mycotoxicosis, pesticide residues, herbal plants, nano-formulations, nano-sponges, food and feed additives, nutrition, animal nutrition, exposure assessment, risk assessment, biomarkers, and human health.

Professor Njobeh has edited the book Mycotoxins: Impact and Management Strategies (2019) and contributed multiple book chapters on topics including African fermented foods and hybrid nanomaterials for mycotoxin management. He has authored numerous journal articles on mycotoxin occurrence, detection, and control in food and feed commodities. In 2023, he delivered his professorial inaugural lecture on mycotoxins and food safety. He supervises numerous postgraduate students and postdoctoral fellows and leads research addressing mycotoxin contamination in African food systems.