‘A naughty boy’: From Dungun to the UN, a Terengganu toxicologist's success story


Dr Salmaan Hussain Inayat Hussain - Bernama pic

KUALA TERENGGANU (Bernama): Over the past eight years, Dungun-born Dr Salmaan Hussain Inayat Hussain is the only Malaysian toxicology expert ever appointed by the United Nations (UN) to look into the effects of pesticides on food.

As one of the expert panellists of the World Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), this 52-year-old Terengganu man is responsible for outlining the safe level of pesticides in food around the world.

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